outgo

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.

   “So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.”

   “Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent.”

   “But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.”

   “[T]hy head ſhall ouerlooke the reſt, / As much as thou in rage out vvent'ſt the reſt.”

   “Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To experience, go through, or undergo (something).

   “So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent.”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.

   “So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]”

   “VVhat, ſhall vve talk further vvith him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of vvhat he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him aftervvards, and ſee if by degrees vve can do any good of him?”

   “Then ſaid By-ends, […] I muſt do as I did before you overtook me, even go by my ſelf, untill ſome overtake me that vvill be glad of my Company. Then Chriſtian and Hopeful outvvent him, and vvent till they came at a delicate Plain, called Eaſe, vvhere they vvent vvith much content; but that plain vvas but narrovv, ſo they vvere quickly got over it.”

   “For as much as Time, is alvvaies Scattered and Stretched out in Length, and Diſtance, one moment follovving after another; but Eternity remaineth in the ſame, vvithout any Flux, and yet nevertheleſs outgoeth Time, and tranſcendeth the Flux thereof, though ſeeming to be ſtretched and ſpun out more into Length.”

   “The tvvo Travellers ſet out together, one on horeſback, the other on foot: Novv as it generally happens that he on horſeback out-goes him on foot, the Cuſtom is, that vvhen he arrives at the Diſtance agreed on, he is to diſmount, tie the Horſe to ſome Gate, Tree, Poſt, or other thing, and then proceed on foot; vvhen the other comes up to the Horſe, he unties him, mounts and gallops on, […]”

4. (intransitive, regional)To go out, to set forth, to set out.

   “I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]”

   “And in the middle sea they chanced to meet; / Up goes the trump; with shots and shouts they greet, / And hasten them to set on with the sun; / With grisly sound outgoeth the great gun, […]”

   “There is a God, the One only Creator, / The All-Animator; / From Him the light of life ever outgoeth,— / Life's river floweth: […]”

5. (intransitive, obsolete)To go too far; to overextend or overreach.

   “But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.”

noun

1. (countable)A cost, expenditure, or outlay.

   “My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½.”

   “The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.”

   “[T]he word "income" means, as already shown, that which has come in, and not that which might have come in, but did not. If expenditure means what has been paid out, or outgoes, then income means what has come in, or receipts.”

   “Net income ('profits') is the difference between income and outgo.”

   “Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo.”

2. (uncountable)The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.

   “Once again, after establishing an equally obvious fact, I succeeded in wringing from her the reluctant admission, "It depends," but she was so shattered by the bulk and force of this outgo, so fearful that in some way she had imperiled her life or reputation, so anxious concerning the effect that her unwilling testimony might have upon unborn generations, that she was of no real service the rest of the day.”

   “The stately Votaress, with her towering funnels lost in the upper night, was running well inshore under a point, wrapped in a world-wide silence broken only by the placid outgo of her own vast breath, the soft rush of her torrential footsteps far below, and the answering rustle of the nearer shore.”

   “I suppose you have been getting a lot of deliveries and no outgoes. Is that about the size of it?”

   “Thus the industry in Massachusetts subsists on a constant influx of cloth and outgo of garments which pass through the hands of the stitching contractors for an essential operation.”

   “The resulting output signal served as the reference that the measured heat inputs and outgos attempted to match.”

3. (archaic, countable, obsolete)The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.

   “The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters.”

   “Of course the fact is not overlooked that the outgos of main drain traps are not usually ventilated against syphonage, but they afford an excellent example of a trap on a nearly horizontal pipe.”

4. (archaic, obsolete, rare, uncountable)A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.

   “It cannot be doubted that the same persons are here meant as are spoken of in the preceding chapter, for their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind which is there said to distinguish them.”

   “In these experiments it is necessary to take account not only of the food eaten, but of the actual amount of this food which is used by the body. […] Estimates of the solids, liquids, and gases given off from his body must be obtained, for to carry out the experiment an exact balance must be made between the income and the outgo.”

   “And the arms of the scale of intake and outgo must likewise remain at level, and they do so maintain balance in health.”