outken
English
    
    
Verb
    
outken (third-person singular simple present outkens, present participle outkenning, simple past and past participle outkenned or outkent)
- (transitive, nonce word) To surpass or exceed in knowledge.
- 1930, New York State Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, New York State journal of medicine, volume 30:- Though feeble, they outken the ken
 Of able scientific men;
 So one might say "It doesn't pay
 To be too doggone healthy.
 
 
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