outread, v.
(aʊtˈriːd)
[out- 15 b, 18.]
† 1. trans. To read through or to the end. rare.
1659 A. Hay Diary (S.H.S. 1901) 141 [I] outred the first book, which caryes on the story till the birth of Christ. |
2. To outdo in reading; to read more than.
1815 Zeluca III. 260 She would out-read Lydia Languish herself. 1888 F. Warden Witch of Hills II. xxiii. 209 Ladies out-read us, out-write us. |