outlast, v.
(aʊtˈlɑːst, -æ-)
[out- 17, 18.]
trans. To last longer than or beyond; to exceed or surpass in duration; to survive.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 171 One bushell well brewed, outlasteth some twaine. a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal (1678) 236 Let him out-last Nestor's years, and out-vie Nero's riches. 1781 F. Burney Diary 26 June, ‘I do not..believe that any grief in the world ever outlasted a twelve⁓month’. 1893 Huxley in Life (1900) II. xxi. 367, I find myself outlasting those who started in life along with me. |
Hence outˈlasting ppl. a., that outlasts, surviving.
| 1887 G. Meredith Ballads & P. 35 Never shall the wrestling cease Till with our outlasting Foe Roll we to the Godhead's feet. |