"outcap" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From out- + cap.",
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          "ref": "1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111:",
          "text": "I ſhall only inſtance in the Quakers, who of all People in the World apply themſelves moſt to the Reading of Scriptures: nay there is ſcarce a Quaker Woman, but ſhall outcap the ableſt Divine of any other Religion in Scripture Texts.",
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        {
          "ref": "1849, William Nelson Hutchinson, “Dog-breaking—the Pocket and the Stud”, in Quarterly Review, volume 84, page 355:",
          "text": "In rapping out oaths a cad outcaps a Chesterfield; scarcely bearable in a buss, oaths in type are too bad, and at such malice prepense printers' devils recoil.",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Albion W. Tourgée, Out of the Sunset Sea, Merrill & Baker, page 282:",
          "text": "The new myth certainly outcapped the Babeque fable, but why should they follow myths forever?",
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          "ref": "1910, Joseph Edward Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada: 1840-1883, W. Briggs, page 97:",
          "text": "I thought myself pretty tall, but many of the Senecas, Oneidas, and Onondagas far outcapped me.",
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        "To cap or top; exceed."
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        "(rare) To cap or top; exceed."
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          "ref": "1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 49:",
          "text": "A mean remark? Certainly, but I comforted myself by saying, \"Everybody does it. Outcapping everyone else is the only way to survive.\"",
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        "To cap (\"lie\") more than."
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        "(nonce word) To cap (\"lie\") more than."
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          "ref": "1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111:",
          "text": "I ſhall only inſtance in the Quakers, who of all People in the World apply themſelves moſt to the Reading of Scriptures: nay there is ſcarce a Quaker Woman, but ſhall outcap the ableſt Divine of any other Religion in Scripture Texts.",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Joseph Edward Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada: 1840-1883, W. Briggs, page 97:",
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        "(rare) To cap or top; exceed."
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        }
      ],
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        "To cap (\"lie\") more than."
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