What is "outvie"

Usage examples of "outvie".

Underground, the mineral wealth outvies the richness of the surface, but national indolence leaves it unexplored.

Certainly the incident seems to support Harton's theory, though it may be a mere whim of Gorings, or, as I suggested to Harton, he may be collecting materials for a book which shall outvie De Quincey.

Captain Servadac, an adept in athletics, almost outvied his instructor, the count.

Archness became this lady of the sunny hair, tip-tilted nose, and complexion that outvied the apple-blossoms.

I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance.

The expedition, however, was unsuccessful, as most commercial expedients are prone to be, where the dull patronage of government is counted upon to outvie the keen activity of private enterprise.