outsift

English

Etymology

out- +‎ sift

Verb

outsift (third-person singular simple present outsifts, present participle outsifting, simple past and past participle outsifted)

1. (transitive, poetic, archaic) To sift out.
   • 1872, John Charles Curtis, The New Poetical Reader, page 140:

     So let me not sift amiss, / But by Wisdom still be taught / To outsift each evil thought / From the mind, and keep behind / The food of bliss.

   • 1873, Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Violet Lee, and Other Poems, page 72:

     But when we are uplifted, / And all the chaff outsifted […]