Middle English Dictionary Entry
ǒutrāǧeǒuslī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | ǒutrāǧeǒuslī adv. Also outragisli & (error) outetrageously. |
| Etymology | From ǒutrāǧeǒus adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Excessively, immoderately; extravagantly; unreasonably, more than necessary; (b) egregiously, wickedly; grievously; of speaking: violently, scandalously; don ~ ayenes, to violate (customs) flagrantly; (c) as adj.: unrestrained, excessive.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)85/21 : Þei conceyue þees wordes not goostly..bot fleschly & bodily, & trauaylen þeire fleschly hertes outrageously in þeire brestes.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)157/35 : Þei make no money nouþer of gold nor of syluer, And þerfore he may despende ynow & outrageously.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)51 : Swiche maner of tenauntes shulden not doone in the tenementes wast ne destruccione, ne that they suffere outrageously [ID(1): outraiousement] to fallen.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)355 : To alle men..is it lawful..if þei forsake..suche deedis, namelich if þei þerwiþ cannen..so reule hem þat þei not outragiouseli take and vse causis..fersli moving..into þe deedis.
- 1448(1435) *Mandeville Brut (Arms 58:Kooper)f.328r : Þan was þe forsaid Mortemer so outragisly prout þat hit was wonder.
- c1450(1446) Nightingale (Clg A.2)3/32 : Sleep..nedes most be had..Withoute whech braynes must be mad, Outragesly wakyng oute of mesure.
- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)362/10 : So it is of the wyne whan it is taken outrageouslye out of reson.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)30.7 : Thou hatid the kepand vanytes outrageusly [L supervacue]..that is, thou reprouyd thaim that settis thaire hertis on the fals ioy of this warld, the whilke outrageusly is kepid when a man for his life does ill, couaytand vanyte, and neuer the lattere he losis his lyfe.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)p.501 : Oure lord slas thaim that lufis this life outrageusly.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)67/2 : If he outragously vse hem [food and drink] or ouer scarsly, he may falle yn-to syknes.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.242 : A kyng woteth not what harmeth housbandrye, Housbande to pill and taxe outragiously.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.205 : Þere þre ȝere and seven monþes he dede outrageousliche [Higd.(2): vsede insolence] aȝenst þe customs and of fredom of Rome.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3998 : Ther biforn he stal but curteisly, But now he was a theef outrageously [vr. vttirly].
- (1415) Hoccl.Oldcastle (Hnt HM 111)270 : He is thyn handwerke, lord; refuse him noght, Thogh he thee haue agilt outrageously.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)32/18 : Gentilnes in himself may not suffre vilony, and nameli not to stryue..ne to speke outragiousli.
- c1460 Chaucer CT.Mel.(NC 314)B.2628 : Outragiously [Heng: A man dredeth to do outrages].
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)13393 : My clerk..Hath yseyd lyk as he wolde, Spekynge ful outragously.
c
- c1440 Chaucer CT.Pard.(Cmb Ii.3.26)C.650 : Vengeaunce shall not parte from his house That is of his othis so outetrageously [vr. outrageous].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475(c1450) ?Scrope Mirror World (Bod 283)95
: The synne of glotonye..to ete..outeragiously.
Note: New spellingNote: Evidently belongs to sense (a).