outwentst

Verb

outgo (third-person singular simple present outgoes, present participle outgoing, simple past outwent, past participle outgone)

1. (archaic, transitive) To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
   • So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.1577, Iohn Calvin, “The .XXI. Sermon, which is the Sixth vppon the Third Chapter, and the First vppon the Fourth”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Sermons of M. Iohn Calvin, vpon the Epistle of S....

   Synonyms:

   outdo

2. (obsolete, transitive) To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
   • So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
   • So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 282

   Synonyms:

   outdistance, outrun, pass

4. (intransitive, regional, archaic except poetic and UK) To go out, to set forth, to set out.
   • I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 16, verso
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
   • But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.1668, John Denham, “On My Lord Croft’s and My Journey into Poland, from whence We Brought 10000 l. for His Majesty by the Decimation of His Scottish Subjects there”, in Poems and Translations, with...

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