outed, ppl. a.
(ˈaʊtɪd)
[f. out v. + -ed1.]
Put out, driven out, ejected; extracted: see out v. 1. Also slang, killed.
| c 1500 Rowll Cursing 170 Thir outtit meiris hes lang gane ydill. 1648 Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 54 Gorging them⁓selves on the preferments of thir outed predecessors. 1676 Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 418 The outed ministers still lurked in the country. 1754–62 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxix. 189 A bold measure of arresting the mayor of London, at the suit of Papillon and Dubois, the outed sheriffs. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 94 He was the outed minister of Small Isles. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss Hags 145 His lady..harboured outed preachers. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 37 Outed, killed. a 1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) ii. 23 Put case I had fallen in with your fine design to match me to yonder outed Prince of Akkama. 1950 Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 73 The English synonyms for death..are less numerous than the French... Wiped out, whether of one's person or one's military unit;..outed, from boxing. |