outgo
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verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes."; "Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent."; "But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe."Synonyms: outdoarchaictransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]"; "VVhat, ſhall vve talk further vvith him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of vvhat he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him aftervvards, and ſee if by degrees vve can do any good of him?"; "Then ſaid By-ends, […] I muſt do as I did before you overtook me, even go by my ſelf, untill ſome overtake me that vvill be glad of my Company. Then Chriſtian and Hopeful outvvent him, and vvent till they came at a delicate Plain, called Eaſe, vvhere they vvent vvith much content; but that plain vvas but narrovv, ſo they vvere quickly got over it."Synonyms: outdistance, outrun, passobsoletetransitive
4. (intransitive)Examples: "I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]"; "And in the middle sea they chanced to meet; / Up goes the trump; with shots and shouts they greet, / And hasten them to set on with the sun; / With grisly sound outgoeth the great gun, […]"; "There is a God, the One only Creator, / The All-Animator; / From Him the light of life ever outgoeth,— / Life's river floweth: […]"intransitiveregional
5. (intransitive)Examples: "But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (countable, business, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.Examples: "My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½."; "The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins."; "[T]he word "income" means, as already shown, that which has come in, and not that which might have come in, but did not. If expenditure means what has been paid out, or outgoes, then income means what has come in, or receipts."Synonyms: outgoingAntonyms: income, receipts, takingscountable
2. (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.Examples: "Once again, after establishing an equally obvious fact, I succeeded in wringing from her the reluctant admission, "It depends," but she was so shattered by the bulk and force of this outgo, so fearful that in some way she had imperiled her life or reputation, so anxious concerning the effect that her unwilling testimony might have upon unborn generations, that she was of no real service the rest of the day."; "The stately Votaress, with her towering funnels lost in the upper night, was running well inshore under a point, wrapped in a world-wide silence broken only by the placid outgo of her own vast breath, the soft rush of her torrential footsteps far below, and the answering rustle of the nearer shore."; "I suppose you have been getting a lot of deliveries and no outgoes. Is that about the size of it?"Synonyms: departure, efflux, exit, outflowAntonyms: arrival, entrance, incoming, inflow, ingoing, influxuncountable
3. (archaic or obsolete)Examples: "The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters."; "Of course the fact is not overlooked that the outgos of main drain traps are not usually ventilated against syphonage, but they afford an excellent example of a trap on a nearly horizontal pipe."archaiccountableobsolete
4. (archaic or obsolete)Examples: "It cannot be doubted that the same persons are here meant as are spoken of in the preceding chapter, for their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind which is there said to distinguish them."; "In these experiments it is necessary to take account not only of the food eaten, but of the actual amount of this food which is used by the body. […] Estimates of the solids, liquids, and gases given off from his body must be obtained, for to carry out the experiment an exact balance must be made between the income and the outgo."; "And the arms of the scale of intake and outgo must likewise remain at level, and they do so maintain balance in health."Synonyms: effluxion, issue, outcomearchaicobsoleterareuncountable
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