Word Finder - outlived

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To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

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To live through or past (a given time).

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To surpass in duration; outlast.

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To live longer; continue to live.

But he had outlived his time.

Doubtless the king's sore financial needs had much to do with the dissolution of the abbeys and the plundering of the shrines, but there is no reason to suppose that he was not fully convinced that the monks had long outlived their usefulness and that the shrines were centres of abject superstition and ecclesiastical deceit.

The passion of love, after very sufficient experience, she apparently and naturally outlived; the passion of hatred and revenge was as inextinguishable in her inmost nature as the emotion of loyalty and gratitude.

He had long outlived his reputation, and towards the end of his life his intellect failed him.

Long before his death he realized that he had outlived his own principles, and many of his former admirers had commenced to dub him a "rank conservative," whose political aims and reforms were no longer adequate.

During twenty-four centuries Buddhism has encountered and outlived a series of powerful rivals.

Amana was the strongest in numbers of the few sectarian communities in America which outlived the 19th century.

He wrote fables, allegories, satires, and a successful comedy of manners, The Swedish Fop. He outlived his chief contemporaries so long that the new generation addressed him as " Father Gyllenborg."

He appears to have outlived Andronicus I., who died in 1185.

I've outlived two advisors and three mates…I purged the kingdoms to the east of their evil ways.

In both cases they are are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes.

The Area Wigan has long outlived its " music hall " status.

The videodisks far outlived the computer system, without which they prove useless.

It is a revolution that I have now outlived.

In the end Egfrith only outlived his father by 141 days. Offa himself had been involved in a struggle for the throne of Mercia.

The theory of skipping over a movement which has not outlived its day is a Trotskyist theory.

Continue to compete in the united in las vegas outlived the skeptics.

It is highly probable that his influence would not have outlived him, if he had not found a lieutenant in `Abd-el-Mumin el Kumi, another Berber, from Algeria, who was undoubtedly a soldier and statesman of a high order.

Similar practical considerations forced the nobles of other European countries either to conform to less sentimental methods of warfare and to growing conceptions of nationality, or to become mere Ishmaels of the type which outlived the middle ages in Gdtz von Berlichingen and his compeers.

It was, however, far easier to acknowledge that the Capitulations rgime was defective and had outlived its time than to devise a remedy and get all the nations interested to accept it.

Not my or thy great-grandfather's, but our great-grandmother Nature's universal, vegetable, botanic medicines, by which she has kept herself young always, outlived so many old Parrs in her day, and fed her health with their decaying fatness.

No, lad, either you fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine.

She, poor innocent creature, is left to be victimized by an old man who has outlived his wits.

The two last are really conterminous; and in both are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes.

Brand new cardio equipment usually remains under warranty between one to five years, so you can expect equipment that's outlived its warranty may start running into problems.

The mine's like a thousand other holes in the ground—it's outlived its time.

I've outlived two advisors and three mates…I purged the kingdoms to the east of their evil ways.

The pope abolished the order, however, as it seemed to be in bad repute and had outlived its usefulness.

She outlived Henry's coronation by ten years; her husband had died in 1151.

The word "monarchy" has, however, outlived this original meaning, and is now used, when used at all, somewhat loosely of states ruled over by hereditary sovereigns, as distinct from republics with elected presidents; or for the "monarchical principle," as opposed to the republican, involved in this distinction.

His elder brother James, who just outlived him, was Conservative M.P. for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1880 to 1906.

The Meistergesang reached its highest point in the 16th century; and it can hardly be said to have outlived that epoch, although the traditions of the Meistersinger schools lingered in south German towns even as late as the 19th century.

But as the father outlived the son, it was Frederick I., Barbarossa, who was actually the first reigning king to be elected here (in 1152).

The Talmud outlived the reactionary tendencies of the Qaraites (q.v.) and of the Kabbalah, and fortunately, since these movements, important though they undoubtedly were for the evolution of thought, had not within them the power to be of lasting benefit to the rank and file of the community.

In Spain the Gothic power outlived the Roman power, but it outlived it only by itself becoming in some measure Roman.

The mine's like a thousand other holes in the ground—it's outlived its time.

Sometimes we decide that a property has outlived its useful life or is permanently unfit to live in.

The result of the two years was undoubtedly to revive the confidence of the Opposition, who found that they had outlived the criticisms of the general election, and both on the question of tariff reform and on matters of general politics were again holding their own.