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Meaning of OUTR'E

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Ou`tr['e]"\, a. [F., p.p. of outer to exaggerate, fr. L.
    ultra beyond. See {Outrage}.]
    Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as,
    an outr['e] costume.
          My first mental development had in it much of the
          uncommon -- even much of the outr['e].   --E. A. Poe.
    
  2. \Ou`tr['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of outrer to exaggerate, fr.
    L. ultra beyond. See {Outrage}.]
    Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant;
    bizarre.
    
 
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