outplead
verbEtymology From out- + plead.
1
To surpass in pleading; to plead more successfully than.
- There were some strokes in this speech which perhaps would have offended Mr Allworthy, had he strictly attended to it; but he had now got one of his fingers into the infant's hand, which, by its gentle pressure, seeming to implore his assistance, had certainly out-pleaded the eloquence of Mrs Deborah, had it been ten times greater than it was.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: