outˈpreach, v.
[out- 18, 18 c.]
1. trans. To outdo, surpass, or excel in preaching; to preach more or better than.
| 1643 Hammond Serm. John xviii. 40 Wks. 1683 IV. 517 Able to outpreach all the Orators you ever heard from the Pulpit. 1742 Young Nt. Th. ix. 2325 Till then, be This an Emblem of my Grave: Let it out-preach the Preacher. 1854 S. Wilberforce in R. I. Wilberforce Life (1881) II. vi. 249 Dissenters outpreach them. |
2. To preach to an end, preach out of existence.
| 1826 Milman A. Boleyn (1827) 156 Think you your crimes and murders..Will not out-preach you from the face of earth? a 1853 [see outpray v. 2]. |