outraying
outraying is the present participle and gerund of outray.
Meaning of outray
Verb
outray (third-person singular simple present outrays, present participle outraying, simple past and past participle outrayed)
- To spread out in array.
- And now they outray to your fleet.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
- To outshine.
- Cerberus doth barke,
Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
As famous poetes say; […]c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88
- Cerberus doth barke,
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- Outraying is the present participle and gerund of outray.
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