outrive
verbEtymology From out- + rive.
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Obsolete To rive; to sever.
- The cou’nants be (he said) that thou vnfold / This wretched boſome, and my hart out riue, [...]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 44:
- [...] Should all in rage the Curſe-beat Page out-riue, [...]1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum. The three laſt Bookes. Of byting Satyres., Lib. 4, Sat. 1,, page 3, line 11: