outdevil
English
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[edit]outdevil (third-person singular simple present outdevils, present participle outdeviling or outdevilling, simple past and past participle outdeviled or outdevilled)
- (transitive) To surpass in devilry.
- 1871, John Levington, Key to Masonry, and Kindred Secret Combinations, page 205:
- Here they outdevil the devil himself; […]
- 2007, Joseph Lanza, Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films, page 249:
- For Russell, Crimes of Passion didn't cover new ground—nothing could outdevil The Devils—but it allowed him to ply his obsessions against a new social backdrop: the Reagan-Thatcher years and the rise of televangelists like Jerry Falwell […]