outmantle

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ mantle.

Verb

outmantle (third-person singular simple present outmantles, present participle outmantling, simple past and past participle outmantled)

1. (transitive) To surpass in mantling or in splendour, as of dress.
   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC:

     And with poetic trappings grace thy prose,
     Till it outmantle all the pride of verse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outmantle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)