"out-Herod" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
          "text": "I could haue such a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it outHerod's Herod. Pray you auoid it.",
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          "text": "nor is his tone anything like so venomous as Carlyle's in that unpleasing essay on Cagliostro, in which he threw all decency to the winds and out-Heroded the Inquisition whilst ranting against it.",
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          "text": "The farther and the longer away from his native country, the more he out-Heroded Artemus Ward and Petroleum V. Nasby.",
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