outprize

outprize

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ prize.

Verb

outprize (third-person singular simple present outprizes, present participle outprizing, simple past and past participle outprized)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To prize beyond value, or excessively.
   • c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, OCLC 1084827221, Act I, scene i, page 7:

     Sir, you flatter now, / And do outprize my willing industry: [...]

2. (transitive, obsolete) To exceed in value.
   • 1596, Thomas Lodge, The Diuel Coniured, London: William Mats,

     There is nothing may be compared with a faithfull [friend], neither may the waight of gold and siluer outprise his faith and goodnesse […]

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv], page 372, column 1:

     Either your vnparagon'd Miſtirs is dead, or ſhe's out-priz'd by a trifle.

   • 1659, Walter Montagu, The Shepherd’s Paradise, London: Thomas Dring, Act III, page 63:

     I do confesse the Prince for many reasons might not only be allowed but wished a second, and succesfull love; that he may know our Sex have joyes that may outprise his sufferings […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 outprize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)