Talk:outerly

RFV discussion: April–October 2023

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outerly

Couple of definitions. Probably didn't survive out of Middle English It is probably (talk) 21:23, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Sense 1 ("utterly") probably survived only in Scots, although OED gives a cite from a glossary of Whitby dialect words, and EDD shows it was used in Northumberland and Yorkshire (without giving cites).

Sense 2 is obsolete, however, it could possibly be combined with a new sense "outwardly", which the OED editors managed to find in two 20th-century philosophy papers. This also seems to appear in various mathematical books (not sure if the sense is the same though - mathematics is a world of its own).

There may even be an adjective. This, that and the other (talk) 10:29, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

I cleaned up the entry, removing sense 1 (RFV-failed), but technically the remaining adverb sense does not yet pass, as cites are yet to be found. This, that and the other (talk) 09:44, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 00:17, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

• RFV passed. Smashing job, Kiki Jewle V (talk) 13:02, 2 October 2023 (UTC)