▪ I. ˈoutleap, n.
[out- 7.]
An act of leaping or springing out; an escape, sally, or excursion; an outburst. lit. and fig.
| c 1250 Gloss. Law Terms in Rel. Ant. I. 33 Utleph, Eschapement de prisum. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. iv. 48 The people..are called Maures, or Moores, as I thincke of their outleapes and wide rowming. 1631 J. Burges Answ. Rejoined Pref. 28 [His] words are set downe punctually, yea euen his out-leapes and digressions. 1692 Locke Educ. §97 Youth must have some Liberty, some Outleaps. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxxiv, The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust. a 1878 Lewes Stud. Psychol. (1879) 147 An immediate outleap of heroic generosity. |
† b. A place to which excursions are made. Obs.
| a 1652 Brome New Acad. ii. i, When shall we walk to Totnam?..or take Coach to Kensington Or Padington? or to some one or other O' th' City out-leaps for an afternoon? |
▪ II. outˈleap, v.
[out- 17, 18, 14.]
1. trans. To leap over or beyond. Also fig.
| 1600 Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood vi. 78 T'out leape mens heades, and caper ore the table. 1897 Home Messenger Nov. 173 A world that outleaps all measurement and outruns all duration. |
2. To surpass or excel in leaping.
| 1629 Gaule Holy Madn. 166 A lion will outstand a man..a stagge out-leap him. 1700 Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 318 Who did..out-leap..the next-best leaper..by seven inches. 1854 Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 198 The serpent has no limbs, yet it can..outleap the jerboa. |
3. intr. To leap out or forth. (poet.)
| 1850 Blackie æschylus I. 49 Outleapt a birth Of strong shield-bearers from the fateful horse. 1874 Holland Mistr. Manse xvi. 65 Outleaping from the mesh Of memory's net, like bird or bee. |
Hence outˈleaping, vbl. n. and ppl. a., leaping out.
| 1878 J. Todhunter Alcestis (1879) 56 Done so simply, In such a frank outleaping of the soul. 1868 Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy v. 359 Escaping subtly in outleaping thought. |