▪ I. ˈoutgo, n.
[out- 7.]
1. The fact of going out or that which goes out; spec. outlay, expenditure; opposed to income.
| c 1640 J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 168 To regulate his out-goes..to order and frugality. 1757 Franklin Ess. Wks. 1846 II. 98 The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 358 The secret of success lies..in the relation of income to outgo. 1895 Sir W. Harcourt Sp. 22 May, Grow as the income or the intake may, the outgo and the waste are always greater. |
2. The action of going out; efflux, outflow.
| 1858 W. Arnot Laws fr. Heaven II. xvii. 142 [Anger] hurts, in its outgo, all who lie within its reach. 1878 Foster Phys. i. iv. (ed. 2) 108 In a system of elastic tubes..the out⁓go being as easy..as the income. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 33 The spontaneous outgo of the affections. |
3. Outward product; issue, outcome.
| 1870 W. Urwick tr. Bleek's Introd. N. Test. II. 175 Their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind. |
4. Outlet, means of egress.
| 1869 S. Bowles Our New West i. 26 The great Salt Lake of Utah..has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters. 1880 S. S. Hellyer Plumber & Sanit. Ho. 15 A square⁓pipe trap, with a round outgo. |
▪ II. outgo, v.
(aʊtˈgəʊ)
[out- 14, 18, 17.]
† 1. intr. To go out, go forth. Obs. except poetic.
In OE. and ME. usually two words, exc. when imitating L. exire; in later use only where modern usage would allow out go in two words as a prosodic inversion of go out.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter xviii. [xix.] 5 In alle eorðan uteode swœᵹ heara. 971 Blickl. Hom. 9 Drihten..of þæm {uacu}teode. c 1250 O. Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 33 Þet on goodman was þat ferst uut yede bi þe Moreghen for to here werkmen. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3076 Quilc ben ðo ðe sulen vt gon? a 1300 E.E. Psalter xliii. 10 [xliv. 9] In our mightes, God, noght sal tou out ga. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 637 Cleopatra, With grysely soun out goth the grete gonne. 1530 Palsgr. 650/2, I outgo, I go out of the waye, Je foruoye. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 20, I sawe a shole of shepeheardes outgoe. a 1635 Corbet Poems (1807) 15 Out-went the townsmen all in starch. 1899 P. H. Wicksteed tr. Dante's Paradiso xiii. 161 That living Light which so outgoeth from its Source that it departeth not therefrom. 1905 Outlook 4 Nov. 629/1 So you, dear Frank, were last of those To whom a tender thought outgoes. |
2. trans. To outstrip in going; to go faster than, pass; to outdistance. arch.
| 1530 Palsgr. 650/2 Though thou be goynge an hour afore me, yet I wyll out go the. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 4 Yet fled she fast and both them farre outwent. 1649 Lovelace Poems (1864) 93 What terror 'tis t' outgo and be outgon. 1678 Bunyan Pilgr. i. 164 Shall we talk further with him? or out-go him at present? 1742 Fielding J. Andrews ii. ii, It generally happens that he on horseback outgoes him on foot. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Workington, Horses, which, changing often, travel day and night with⁓out intermission, and, as they say, out-go the post. |
3. To go beyond (a point, bounds, etc.); to exceed or surpass; to excel, outstrip, outdo.
| 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. 64 b, Wo be to that realme where might outgoeth right. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Apr. 16 His wonted songs, wherein he all outwent. 1627 Milton Vac. Exerc. 79 In worth and excellence he shall out-go them. 1799 A. Hamilton Lett. in Washington's Writ. (1893) XIV. 178 note, I do not think it expedient to outgo our supply of clothing. 1885–94 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Sept. xxiii, Such sorrow as outwent The utmost pain of other punishment. |
† 4. To pass, go through, spend (time). Obs.
| 1594 Spenser Amoretti lx, One yeare..The which doth longer unto me appeare, Then al those fourty which my life out-went. a 1613 Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 275, I have once in my life out-gone night at Sea. |
† 5. ‘To circumvent, to overreach’ (J.). Obs.
| c 1650 Denham On Journ. Poland x, Mollesson Thought us to have out-gone With a quaint invention. |