outdream
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]outdream (third-person singular simple present outdreams, present participle outdreaming, simple past and past participle outdreamed or outdreamt)
- (transitive) To surpass in dreams or imagination.
- (transitive, obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)To pass or escape while dreaming[1]
- c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
- I am no flatterer, / To promise infinitely, and out-dream dangers; […]
References
[edit]- ^ “outdream”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.