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.
