outstript

English

Verb

outstript

  1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of outstrip
    • 1822, Robert Southey, History of Brazil - Volume 1, page 211:
      The Savages pursued, some of them came up to him, he beat them off, outstript the rest, ran into the sea, and swam off to the boat.
    • 1858, Saxe Bannister, William Paterson, the Merchant Statesman, and Founder of the Bank of England: His Life and Trials, page 337:
      ...but it is plain that this potent nation, which now for more than half an age has not only come up with, but outstript others in several things — but especially in the arts of war, intriguing, and taxing — has been far enough from having the same success in matters trade, and in designs to those more remote places of the world.
    • 1998, Eric Murphy Selinger, What is it Then Between Us?: Traditions of Love in American Poetry, →ISBN:
      Like Christ, he comes as a physician ("I am he bringing help fo the sick as they pant on their backs"); and though he insists on visiting "strong upright men" as well, I find those visits as purely rhetorical as his questions to a too-self-satisfied reader: "Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President? / It is a trifle."
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