outscent

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ scent.

Verb

outscent (third-person singular simple present outscents, present participle outscenting, simple past and past participle outscented)

1. (transitive) To exceed in odour; to be more odorous than.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     This he did to qualify the infamy of Garnet's death , and that the perfume of this new title might outscent the stench of his treason.

References

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

Anagrams

• countest, ctenotus, scent out