outherod

See also: out-Herod

English

Verb

outherod (third-person singular simple present outherods, present participle outheroding, simple past and past participle outheroded)

1. Obsolete form of out-Herod.
   • 1828 Dec, The Edinburgh Review:

     This is outheroding old George Rose, and would, we are inclined to think, satisfy even Lord Malmsbury himself.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     always with some touch of Leonidas-eloquence, often with a fire of daring that threatens to outherod Herod,—the Galleries, ‘especially the Ladies, never done with applauding’.

   • 1841, Charles Henry Knox, Hardness:

     of being asked [...] in the Traveller's, why he did not establish a yacht in the Levant and outherod Lamartine [...].