outsit

From out- +‎ sit.

• Rhymes: -ɪt

outsit (third-person singular simple present outsits, present participle outsitting, simple past and past participle outsat)

1. To remain sitting, waiting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     No Scotch government will take him at his own, or rather his wife's extravagant valuation; and betwixt his indecision and her insolence, from all I can guess, he will outsit his market, and be had cheap when no one will bid for him.

   • 1901, Fred Schultz Lincoln, An Indiana Girl, Chapter 12:

     Without a note for his sermon he stepped into his pulpit and, buoyed up by the happiness that surged within him, he signified his intention to begin. Landy and the new Mrs. George sat in the front row—she fussily settling to outsit the ordeal and he striking at once an attitude of absorbed interest.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond:

     While she had been speaking he had made up his mind what course to take, and now, having outsat everybody else, he decided that it was time for the interview to cease.

   • 1923, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Popular Magazine, Twice in the Graveyard Watch:

     Billy said nothing. Captain Powell sat tight, and Billy tried to outsit him. He probably would have failed in this had not some crony of the captain's, living near by, reminded him over the telephone that he had a chess engagement.

• “outsit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• sit out, sit-out, sitout