outsift

verb

verb

Etymology From out- + sift.

Archaic, Poetic To sift out.

So let me not sift amiss, / But by Wisdom still be taught / To outsift each evil thought / From the mind, and keep behind / The food of bliss.1872, John Charles Curtis, The New Poetical Reader, page 140:
But when we are uplifted, / And all the chaff outsifted […]1873, Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Violet Lee, and Other Poems, page 72:

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