outreign

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ reign.

Verb

outreign (third-person singular simple present outreigns, present participle outreigning, simple past and past participle outreigned)

1. (transitive) To surpass in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.

   On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-serving monarch, having outreigned Queen Victoria.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In wretched prison long he did remain ,
     Țill they outreigned had their utmost

References

• “outreign”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• outering, routeing