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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstep.

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  • Reply Obj. 2: It is the anger which outsteps the bounds of reason that is opposed to meekness, and not the anger which is controlled and brought within its proper bounds by reason, for meekness holds the mean in anger.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • As I shall have briefly to relate doings of these folk, and would fain not seem to fabricate what conflicts with common belief or outsteps the faithful truth, it is worth the knowing that there were in old times three kinds of magicians who by diverse sleights practiced extraordinary marvels.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Galleries which were reached by outsteps, and in some cases, outside sheds were provided without any means of keeping warm, where they could hear the preacher, but could hot see him.

    Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914

  • He never outsteps the modesty of nature, nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth.

    Life of Addison, 1672-1719 1909

  • By piling up provisions simply for a future use, and anticipating their enjoyment in the imagination, he outsteps the limits of the present moment, but not those of time in general.

    >Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXVII. 1909

  • It has too often come to be identified, as you say, with human law, as a power which leaves one severely alone, if one behaves oneself, and which punishes harshly and mechanically if one outsteps the limit.

    The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • "Your insolence, sir, outsteps all bounds, and you shall answer for it, I tell you."

    The Passenger from Calais Arthur Griffiths 1873

  • TALMA, and, like him, "outsteps the modesty of Nature."

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

  • By piling up provisions simply for a future use, and anticipating their enjoyment in the imagination, he outsteps the limits of the present moment, but not those of time in general.

    Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • By piling up provisions simply for a future use, and anticipating their enjoyment in the imagination, he outsteps the limits of the present moment, but not those of time in general.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

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