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out-Herod
out-Herod, v. (aʊtˈhɛrəd) [out- 23 b.] to out-Herod Herod: to outdo Herod (represented in the old Mystery Plays as a blustering tyrant) in violence; to be more outrageous than the most outrageous; hence, to outdo in any excess of evil or extravagance. (A casual Shaksperian expression, which has beco... Oxford English Dictionary
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outgrabe
outgrabe, v. (aʊtˈgreɪb) A factitious word introduced by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (see quot. 18552). (In quot. 1903 used for ‘outdo’, after the style of out-Herod, etc.) Quot. 18551 also occurs in the first verse of ‘Jabberwocky’ in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) i. 21.1855 ‘L. Carroll’ Rectory Umbrella & ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Cultural depictions of Herod the Great
Such portrayals were still in folk memory in William Shakespeare's time, for Hamlet instructs the players not to "out-Herod Herod" (Act 3, Scene 2). wikipedia.org
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Horatio Storer
imbrued with her infant's blood; of the equally guilty father, who counsels or allows the crime; of the wretches, who by their wholesale murders far out-Herod wikipedia.org
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termagant
▪ I. termagant, n. (a.) (ˈtɜːməgənt) Forms: α. 3 teruagant, 3–5 -aunt. β. 4–7 termagaunt, 6 turmagant, Sc. tarmegant, termygant, 7 tarmagant, -gon, 7–8 termagent, 8 termigant, 6– termagant. [In early ME. Tervagant, OF. Tervagan (in La Fontaine 17th c. Tarvagant), proper name in Chanson de Roland a 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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out-
out- in comb. is used with substantives, with verbs and their derivatives, and with other adverbs. In OE. {uacu}t adv. was already prefixed (1) to ordinary ns. in the sense ‘that is without’, ‘out-lying’, ‘external’, as in {uacu}tland a country that is out, a distant or foreign land, {uacu}there an ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Teutonicism
Teutonicism (tjuːˈtɒnɪsɪz(ə)m) [f. as prec. + -ism.] Teutonic (i.e. German) character or practice; a Teutonic expression; a Teutonism.1842 Sir C. Lyell in Life, etc. (1881) II. 63 The terms bakery and bookbindery seem useful Teutonicisms. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 4/3 Italian composers essaying the mo... Oxford English Dictionary
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Herodian dynasty
Such portrayals were still in folk memory in William Shakespeare's time, for Hamlet instructs the players not to "out-Herod Herod" (Act 3, Scene 2). wikipedia.org
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