Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To soar beyond or to a higher place than.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To soar beyond.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To soar beyond or above.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
soar beyond or above.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their minds outsoar the bonds which clasped them round, 3560
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O Thou whose divine tenderness doth ever outsoar the narrow loves and charities of earth, grant me to-day a kind and gentle heart towards all things that live.
A Diary Of Private Prayer John Baillie 1977
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O Thou whose divine tenderness doth ever outsoar the narrow loves and charities of earth, grant me to-day a kind and gentle heart towards all things that live.
A Diary Of Private Prayer John Baillie 1977
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Firdausi in the _Shaknameh_, of Kavi Usan, who "essayed the sky To outsoar angels" by fastening four eagles to his throne.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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And though the prophets, and the gospel authors outsoar Moses, I think, in the morally sublime; yet there are two or three touches in Genesis that roll and roar like
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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Their minds outsoar the bonds which clasped them round,
The Revolt of Islam 1901
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The eaglet's failure in attempted flight teaches him to outsoar clouds.
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Whence his soul took fire, and power to outsoar the sunward-soaring bird.
Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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If there be darkness here, still we can 'outsoar the shadow of our night,' and live close to the sun in fellowship with God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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My name shall still outsoar these low, mirk vapors --
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Emma Lazarus 1868
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