out-ˈcountenance, v. Obs. exc. in arch. use.
[out- 26.]
trans. To put out of countenance; to outface.
| 1586 Bright Melanch. xxix. 166 Then is he presently outcountenaunced through the guiltie conceite. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. ii. (1632) 190, I have seene him when hee was past threescore yeares of age mocke at all our sports, and outcountenance our youthfull pastimes. 1613 J. Davies Muse's Teares (1878) 14 While high Content, in what-so-euer Chance, Makes the braue Minde the Starres out⁓countenance. a 1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxix. 222 In him..burned..that same recklessness and superfluity which, when he..went on..into known instant peril of death at Middlemead, had outcountenanced the great lamp of heaven. |