outdure
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]outdure (third-person singular simple present outdures, present participle outduring, simple past and past participle outdured)
- (transitive, obsolete) To endure beyond; to outlast.
- 1619–1620, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The False One. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
- Egyptians, dare you think your higheſt Pyramids,
Built to out-dure the Sun, as you ſuppoſe,
Where your unworthy Kings lye rak'd in Aſhes,
Are Monuments fit for him?