KJV Dictionary Definition: outrage

outrage

OUT'RAGE, v.t. L. ultra, beyond.

To treat with violence and wrong; to abuse by rude or insolent language; to injure by rough, rude treatment of any kind.

Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return.

This interview outrages all decency.

OUT'RAGE, v.i. To commit exorbitances; to be guilty of violent rudeness.

OUT'RAGE, n.

Injurious violence offered to persons or things; excessive abuse; wanton mischief. Rude abusive language, scurrility, or opprobrious and contemptuous words, may be an outrage to persons, or to decency and civility. A violent attack upon person or property is an outrage.

He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country where he went.

outrageous

OUTRA'GEOUS, a.

1. Violent; furious; exorbitant; exceeding all bounds of moderation; as outrageous villainies; outrageous talk; outrageous abuse.

2. Excessive; exceeding reason or decency; as outrageous panegyric.

3. Enormous; atrocious; as outrageous crimes.

4. Tumultuous; turbulent.

outrageously

OUTRA'GEOUSLY, adv. With great violence; furiously; excessively.

outrageousness

OUTRA'GEOUSNESS, n. Fury; violence; enormity.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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