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unˈnumberable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Incapable of being numbered; innumerable.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxviii. 6 How fa my dayes ere here, and how vnnoumberabil in heuen. 1382Wyclif Exod. x. 14 A brennynge wynd reride vp locustes, the whiche..seeten in alle the coostis of Egipciens vnnoumbrable. c1440Gesta Rom. lvii. 241 (Harl. MS.), Thorow this pryde bethe vnnumberable peple infecte and dede. 1513Douglas æneid vi. xi. 53 The flude Lethe..About the quhilk peple vn⁓nomerable..fleis fast. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.) 144 The unnumberable wind-milns through Holland. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child of Nature I. 53 Unnumberable are the unfortunate he has relieved. 1852Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 173 With starry globes unnumberable, suns, Planets and moons. |