outdream
English
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editoutdream (third-person singular simple present outdreams, present participle outdreaming, simple past and past participle outdreamed or outdreamt)
- (transitive) To surpass in dreams or imagination.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pass or escape while dreaming.
- c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
- out-dream dangers
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outdream”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)