outlook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈlʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: outlooks
form: outlooking
form: outlooked
form: outlooked
Etymology: From out- + look.
Senses: examples: text: This old man with the ſythe, olde father Tyme they call, / And hir his daughter Trueth, which holdeth yonder Booke, / Whome he out of his rocke hath brought forth to vs all, / From whence this many yeares ſhe durſt not once out looke.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Queene Elizabeth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 1792, column 1:
text: 1610, Gervase Markham, Markhams Maister-peece, or, What Doth a Horse-man Lack? London, Chapter 103 “Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in buying of a horse,” pp. 204-205,
… marke his colour and his shape, that is to say, a comely well proportioned head, with an outlooking eye, good well raised shoulders, and a thicke large breast …
text: A Towre [...] is, or ought to be [...] mounted with bulwarks, towred with turrets, battailed for out-looking artillerie, enclosed with ditches [...]
ref: 1622, Samuel Purchas, The Kings Towre and Triumphant Arch of London, London, published 1623, pages 32–33:
text: [...] would we look at the rooms? Outlooking on the piazza, with a balcony from which we could observe the Festa of to-morrow.
ref: 1895, Henry van Dyke, “Alpenrosen and Goat’s Milk”, in Little Rivers, New York: Scribner, page 150:
text: The train stopped: the slow aisle, still interrupted with outlooking, then the descent among faces grave, decorous, and judicial: [...]
ref: 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 20, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 460:
synonyms: look out
glosses: To face or look in an outward direction.
examples: text: [...] I drew this gallant head of war,
And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,
To outlook conquest and to win renown
Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: There made they stand; there euerie eye, fixt on each other, stroue
Who should outlooke his mate amaz’d:
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 235:
text: [...] the news of the judgment to come, in the Preachers mouth, will be under an heavy suspicion of fraud and cheat, and in fine, pass but for fictions [...] too weak to outlook a brave glittering temptation:
ref: 1645, Henry Hammond, XXXI Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, London: Richard Royston, published 1684, Sermon 8, p. 519:
text: Once or twice he attempted to outlook the Saxon prisoner, but Hereward shrank not beneath his glance [...]
ref: 1838, Thomas Miller, chapter 37, in Royston Gower, London: W. Nicholson, page 329:
text: The pain which the king suffered would have softened any ordinary heart; but the murderer was a hard and callous wretch, and his brazen eyes outlooked the king.
ref: 1911, Henry Gilbert, chapter 11, in King Arthur’s Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls, Edinburgh & London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 299:
synonyms: outstare
face down
browbeat
overcome
glosses: To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
examples: 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,
Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours …
1793, Hester Piozzi, letter dated 22 May, 1793, in Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821, London: The Bodley Head, 1914, p. 89,
… Sally quite outlooked her sister by the bye, and was very finely drest.
1862, B. F. Taylor, diary entry dated 5 November, 1862, in E. R. Hutchins (ed.), The War of the Sixties, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912, p. 36,
Burnside, handsome, stately, outlooked his chief on horseback as on foot.
glosses: To be more attractive than (someone or something).
examples: 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,
Away to the Brook,
All your Tackle out look,
Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing;
See that all things be right,
For ’tis a very spight
To want tools when a man goes a fishing.
glosses: To inspect throughly; to select.
examples: text: [...] to fit minds to so even a temper, that both should round the same circle, and never out-look the Horizon of their reciprocal Interest, is a work altogether impossible.
ref: 1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, page 54:
glosses: To look beyond (something).
Derived terms: outlooker