out-go

See also: outgo

English

Verb

out-go (third-person singular simple present out-goes, present participle out-going, simple past out-went, past participle out-gone)

1. Alternative form of outgo
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Men are Punished by Too-much Opinionating Themselves in a Place without Reason”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 23:

     Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]

   • 1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 67:

     In worth and excellence he ſhall out-go them, / Yet being above them, he ſhall be below them; […]

   • 1668, John Denham, “On My Lord Croft’s and My Journey into Poland, from whence We Brought 10000 l. for His Majesty by the Decimation of His Scottish Subjects there”, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, 4th edition, London: […] [John Macock] for H[enry] Herringman […], →OCLC, stanza 10, page 68:

     But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 164:

     VVhat, ſhall we talk further with him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of what he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him afterwards, and ſee if by degrees we can do any good of him?