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Outward, a. (n.). Also: -warde, -vard, -uard(e, -uairde, outterd, and Utward. [Late ME. and e.m.E. outward(e (Lydgate), owtewarde, early ME. utward (a 1225), OE. útan-, úte-, útweard.]An (erron.) early instance (see Outware n.) is: 1190–1203 Liber Calchou 205.
Liberam … ab omni seruicio & de inwarde & de vtwarde

Outward, chiefly in senses of Outwart a.

1. Outside, outer. = Outwart a. 1. 1664 Galloway P. 21 Feb.
The saids Johne [etc.] … are to gett ane outward wheill with ten daills

b. From outside a community or country, extraneous, external, foreign. 1584 Aberd. Journal N. & Q. VI. 119.
To the outward pure that ar nocht of our nomber 1633 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 85.
Nather sall the evillis therof be onlie felt in the invard commodities of the kingdome, bot lyikwayis all outvard waires and especiallie those of the eist cuntreyis

c. Outward bar, house (of a court): = Outer a. (3) and Utter a. 1622-6 Bisset I. 155/28.
Na maisser sall grant ony accese [etc.] … withtin any of the barris, outwarde or inwarde 1655 Acts VI. ii. 894/1.
The court of justice … consists of two howses; the one termed the outward and the other the inward house … The outward house is to dispatch all thinges dispatchable of course, the inward howse [etc.]

2. External to the body, applied externally. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 33 (Ch.).
And in the auld the curage doif and deid Of quhilk the fire outward is best remeid

3. External, physical, formal, as opposed to the mental or spiritual or to inner substance. = Outwart a. 2.(1) c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 135. marg. Ib. 317/20, etc.
Yit dois the scripture ofttymes ascriwe the justificatiounn to outwarde deidis 1567 G. Ball. 8.
In consell, thocht, nor outward deid 1580 Cath. Tr. (S.T.S.) 39/19.
Considering it is the trew intelligence that makes the wourd, and nocht the outward sounding of the woce 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 162/5.
The people quha sees but the outuarde pairt uill euer iudge of the substance be the circumstances Ib. 199/5, 200/13. a1599 Rollock Wks. I. 444.
The outward wasching in baptisme is not to be luikit to lichtlie c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxii. 2.
Outuard 1629 Boyd Last B. 114.
Though God glowme in outward countenance … yet in his heart are euer thoughts of peace(2) a1500 Bk. Chess 219.
He had no mynd of erdly thing outward 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 200/2.
For outuairde & indifferent things are euer the shaddouis & allurairis to uertu or uyce Id. Dæmonol. 44.
The Deuill will have his out-warde meanes to be schewes at it were of his doing(3) a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 127/4.
Men … quha doise mesure the profunde mistery of the sacrament be thair outvard vittes and senses 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 29.
For ay the mair that the outward senses be walkned, the mair is the inward hart [etc.]

4. Appar., Formal, distant. 1603 Dundonald Par. Rec. 39.
Hir husband was weri hard and out vard to hir 1604 Ib. 57.

5. Pertaining to export goods; export-. 1630 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 335.
To the hinderance of the sext pairt of the merchant tred in that kynd both outward and inward

6. n. a. The outer division of an army, the flank. b. An outward voyage. c. As to the outward, to outward appearances.a. c1475 Wall. x. 718.
Tharwith the Scottis so hard amang thaim drew, Off the outward thre thousand thair thai slew Ib. ix. 1076.b. 1595 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 6 b.
Deborset for our out-terd Ib. 8 b.
Deborset for our schepes outterd to Depec. 1662 Sel. Biog. I. 433.
Which I did with very much joy and peace, although, as to the outward, it was the darkest hour of trouble [etc.]