Outlie vs Outlive - What's the difference?
outlie | outlive |
(rare) To tell more or better lies than.
(rare) To lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery.
To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII .:
* 2003 , Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:
To live through or past (a given time).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
To surpass in duration; outlast.
To live longer; continue to live.
As verbs the difference between outlie and outlive
is that outlie is (rare|transitive) to tell more or better lies than or outlie can be (rare) to lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery while outlive is to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.outlie
English
Etymology 1
From out-'' and ''lie in the sense of "tell a lie".Verb
Etymology 2
From out'' and ''lie in the sense of "be located".Verb
Usage notes
* This verb is fairly rare; more common are the derived noun outlier'' (commonly found in the plural form ''outliers'') and participial adjective ''outlying .Derived terms
*outlier *outlyingoutlive
English
Verb
(outliv)- And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
- If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.
- This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived .