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unˈmeasured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not limited or known by measurement; immense in size, extent, or amount.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. iv. (Bodl. MS.), Fuyre..is icleped vnmesured, for his vertu..encreseþ wiþoute eende. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 The stature of a woman..of bignes vnmeasured. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 78 So from the ships and tents the army's store Troop'd to these princes..along th' unmeasur'd shore. 1646Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxii, That the unmeasur'd God so low should sinke, As Pris'ner in a few poore Rags to lye. 1718Prior Solomon i. 640 This ample azure Sky,..With Stars unnumber'd, and unmeasur'd Light. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 320 Of an unmeasured fluid, we can only reason by conjecture. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxi, When..Such startler cast his glance below, And saw unmeasured depth around. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 2 Pale stars..make heaven so vast That earth..Seems shrunken 'neath the grey unmeasured height.
absol.1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1710 As the thunder roars deep in the Unmeasured.
b. Of feelings, qualities, etc.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 6 In þe flaume vnmesurde of lufe. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3008 Gods vnmesured bountee. 1618in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 22, I have stroven..with their tricks of unmeasured greatenes. 1692Prior Ode Imit. Hor. iii, Distracted Lewis can descry Only a long unmeasur'd Ruin nigh. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §179 The unmeasured violence of the sea. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 116 Wolsey..combined practical sagacity with an unmeasured power of hoping. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 151 All men are rivals in unmeasured wo.
2. Not doled out by measure. rare—1.
1667Milton P.L. v. 399 Our Nourisher from whom All perfet good unmeasur'd out, descends.
3. Not subjected to measure; not composed of measured syllables.
1715Pope Iliad iv. 298 Unmix'd, unmeasured, are thy goblets crown'd. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Poetry, These, in a Discourse that has no poetical Feet or Measures, do yet..make it a kind of unmeasured Poetry. 1808L. Murray Gram. I. 84 In regard to unmeasured quantities and qualities, the degrees of more and less..may be expressed intelligibly. a1822Shelley Def. Poetry, Essays & Lett. (1840) 9 It is necessary..to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 175 His delightful prose, his unmeasured poetry.
4. Immoderate, unrestrained.
1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 106 His pride and unmeasured pretensions. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. II. 287 The unmeasured eulogies he bestows upon him. 1884Jebb in Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 434 The habitual use of unmeasured language [in criticism].
Hence unˈmeasuredly adv., -edness.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 75 No marevayle þof I..vn⁓mesurdnes of þat endles swetnes to ȝow may not opyn. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 43 This vengeance..will lengthen out My daies unmeasuredly. 1864G. Gilfillan in Lett. & Jrnls. (1892) 373, I intend considering..the energy—the unmeasuredness—of their life. |