outken
English
Etymology
From out- + ken.
Verb
outken (third-person singular simple present outkens, present participle outkenning, simple past and past participle outkenned or outkent)
- (transitive, nonce word) To surpass or exceed in knowledge.
- 1930, New York State Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, New York State journal of medicine, volume 30:
- Though feeble, they outken the ken
Of able scientific men;
So one might say "It doesn't pay
To be too doggone healthy.
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