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- verb Obsolete form of
out-Herod .
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(verb) - To excel or exceed in bombast, magniloquence, or violence. From the character of Herod who, in the old miracle plays, was always represented as arrogant.
--Edward Lloyd's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895
January 16, 2018