outmantle
English
Etymology
out- + mantle
Verb
outmantle (third-person singular simple present outmantles, present participle outmantling, simple past and past participle outmantled)
- (transitive) To surpass in mantling or in splendour, as of dress.
- Cowper
- And with poetic trappings grace thy prose,
Till it outmantle all the pride of verse.
- And with poetic trappings grace thy prose,
- Cowper
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 outmantle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)