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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1501-1513, 1584-1626
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(Out-braid,) Owt-brade, v. P.t. and p.p. out-braid, -bred, -braided. [Cf. e.m.E. outbrayd (1509) to upbraid, reproach, and Braid v.] tr. and intr. a. To break out into speech, to blurt out. b. ? To upbraid, reproach. —a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 685.
He demandit my answer, quhat I said … Sair abaisit beliue I thus out braid 1513 Id. Æn. iv. x. 20 (see Braid v. 2 b). a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxv. 137.
Hir wofull voice no soner had out bred Thais wofull wordis quhairwith scho sorrowed so —b. 1622-6 Bisset I. 77/25.
Nor … have I over disdanefullie detracted … laked or outbraided in ony wayis
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