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outreason (third-person singular simple present outreasons, present participle outreasoning, simple past and past participle outreasoned)

1. (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
   • a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volumes (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:

     they cannot out-reason the conscience

   • 2016, Gary V. Ventimiglia, Free to Run the Race:

     to be outreasoned is a frustrating and debilitating experience. It is a far cry from being convinced—it usually makes us shut up

参照

• “outreason”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.