outpeer

verb

outpeer

verb

Etymology From out- + peer.

1

Archaic To excel or surpass.

  • Which their own conscience sealed them, laying by That nothing gift of differing multitudes, Could not outpeer these twain1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

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