▪ I. † ˈoute, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1–3 {uacu}te, 4–5 oute, owte.
[OE. {uacu}te = OS., OFris. ûta, ûte, OHG. ûȥe, ON. {uacu}ti, Goth. ûta adv., deriv. of ût out. Cf. Gr. ἔξω from ἐξ.]
1. Of position: Out, outside. = out adv. 15, 16; also in some derived senses, e.g. = out 22, 23.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. iii. (1890) 264 Þonne wæs he ute wyrcende. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 69 Petrus soðlice sæt ute [Lindisf. {uacu}ta] on þam cofertune. a 1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) IX. 260 ᵹe inne ᵹe ute. c 1200 Ormin 141 All þe follc þær ute stod. a 1225 Ancr. R. 150 Þeonne is þet lif ute. Þeonne adeadeð þet treou. a 1300 K. Horn 245 In þe curt and ute, And elles al abute. c 1325 Poem Times Edw. II (Camden) 120 There hii clateren cumpelin whan þe candel is oute [rime doute]. c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 367. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 363 These othre tuelue..wente aboute The holi feith to prechen oute. |
b. In existence, existing. Cf. out adv. 26 c.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 145 Þe hexte lettred oute. Ibid. 267 Thus he lykneth in his logyk þe leste foule oute. c 1400 Destr. Troy 2175 To wreke vs of wrathe for any wegh oute. a 1400–50 Alexander 598 Þis barne..Miȝt wele a-prefe for his a-port to any prince oute. Ibid. 2574, I ne am noght gylty of þis by all þe godes owte! Ibid. 4574, 5410. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 250 [To] lede and vse the moost werst and synfullist lyf oute. |
2. Of motion or direction. rare.
| a 900 O.E. Chron. an. 894 Ne com se here..eall ute or ðæm setum. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 Hie ne cam nauwer ute. |
¶In later use, oute, owte (e mute), occur as spellings of out.
▪ II. oute
obs. form of ought, aught.