Fromout- +war.
outwar (third-person singular simple presentoutwars,present participleoutwarring,simple past and past participleoutwarred)
- (transitive) Todefeat orsurpass (someone) inwarfare.
1611, Iohn Speed [i.e.,John Speed], “Edward the Third, […]”, inThe History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […],→OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 138,page586, column 2:They [the French] deſire (kingEdward [III] grovvne aged) not to ſeeme by ſitting ſtill vpon ſo many thornes of diſgrace, and loſſe, to haue beeneoutvvarred, though ouer-vvarred, and though in tvvo or three battels inferior, yet not to haue beene clearly debellated.
