outray

verb — 2 senses

outray

verb

/aʊtˈɹeɪ/

Etymology From out- + ray.

1

Obsolete 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, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
2

Obsolete 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:

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