outname

English

Etymology

out- +‎ name

Verb

outname (third-person singular simple present outnames, present participle outnaming, simple past and past participle outnamed)

1. (obsolete) To exceed in naming or describing.
2. (obsolete) To exceed in fame or degree.
   • c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iv:

     And found out one to out-name thy other faults.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “outname”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• automen, notaeum