outrageous (outrajus)

[ Eche man com play ned of his lo e and harme, that was right grete and outragiouse . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 547. There be.iiij. rowes or range of pylers thrughout ye church, of ye fynest marble yt may be, not onely meruaylous for ye nombre, but for ye outragyous gretnes, length, and fayrenes therof. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 36. 2. Immoderate; exce ive; unrestrained; violent; furious. But though attempre weping be graunted, outrageous weping certes is defended. Chaucer , Tale of Melibeus. The states of Christen dom, Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils, Have earnestly implored a general peace Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French. Immediate in a flame, But soon obscured with smoke, all heaven appear'd, From those deep-throated engines belch'd, whose roar Embowel'd with outrageous noise the air. Milton , P. L., vi. 4187 outrageously (out-rā'jus-li), adv. 1. To an extraordinary or unexampled extent or degree; exce ively; extravagantly; unrestrainedly; hence, violently; furiously; madly; irrationally. For ther biforn he stal but curteisly, But now he was a theef outrageously . outrigger The man Of cunning is outreach'd ; we must be safe. Ford , Perkin Warbeck, iv. 4. II. in trans. To reach out; be extended or proffered. Love outreaching unto all God's creatures. Whittier , Remembrance of Joseph Sturge. Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 78. outreason (out-re'zn), v. t. To excel or sur And munday all Day and all nyght it blew owtrageously . Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 59. There being nothing so extravagant and outrageously wild which a mind once infected with atheistical sottishne and disbelief will not rather greedily swallow down than admit a Deity. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 106. 2. With shamele disregard of authority, or- der, morality, decency, or humanity; atrocious- ly; audaciously; flagrantly; barbarously. And sawe how outragiously they had slayne the bayly he thought the mater shulde be yuell at length. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. ceel. Lo, thy furious foes now swell, And storm outrageously. Milton , Ps. lxxxiii. 2. outrageousne (out-ra'jus-nes), n . The state or character of being outrageous. out rager (out'rā-jer), n. One who outrages or violates: a flagrant violator. An out rager of all laws and social duties. H. Spencer , Sociology, p. 208.