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third-person singular simple present outwells, present participle outwelling, simple past and past participle outwelled
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To well outward; to issue forth. quotations
[…] when old father Nilus gins to swellWith timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale,His fattie waues doe fertile slime outwell,And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale:
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 9
[…] Religion that rebuketh prophane lamentation, drinkes in the riuers of those dispaireful teares, which languorous ruth hath outwelled […]
1591, Philip Sidney, “Somewhat to reade for them that list”, in Astrophel and Stella, London: Thomas Newman