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† disˈmeasured, a. Obs.
Also des-, dys-.
[f. dis- + measured, repr. OF. desmesuré.]
1. Unmeasured; out of measure; immoderate, excessive; going beyond bounds, unrestrained.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 123/3, I..wende to haue saued the and thou art desmesured in worldly loue and flesshly. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) B ij, I wyll not that my penne bee so dismeasured to reproue so muche the aunciente men. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ix. 43 Sapho..in a fury and rage of a love dismeasured, she cast her selfe..into the Sea.
b. Excessive in size, immense.
1584B. R. Herodotus 10 b, A wyld bore strangely dismeasured and overgrowne.
2. Wrongly measured; in false measure.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 50 To them he giueth all things variable, dismeasured, and by false weight.
3. as adv. Immoderately.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 64 O Paynym, dysmesured al day thou vauntest the. |