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† innermore, a. and adv. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈɪnəmɔə(r)| Forms: 4–7 innermore, (4 innermar(e, iner-mare), 6 ynnermer, Sc. innermair, 6 (9 dial.) innermer, 8 dial. indermore, 9 dial. indermer. [f. inner a. (q.v.) and adv. + -more; after innermost: see inner a.] A. adj. Situated more within, inner.
1413Pilgr, Sowle (Caxton) v. i. (1859) 70 Two grete spyeres..in the Innermore of whiche, the sterres were fastned bryght. 1535Coverdale Ezek. x. 3 The cloude fylled the ynnermer courte. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde (1564) 51 A portion of the innermer bottome of the Matrix. 1635N. R. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. 285 A narrow necke of land between the innermore rock of the haven and the Ocean. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc II. 96 It seemed..that the hinder and innermore circumduction of the eye was as a Concave-glasse. 1828Craven Dial., Innermer, inner. fig.1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xl. 9 This innermore and effectual teaching of the Spirit. 1587― De Mornay xiii. 194 He being neere & innermore to al things than the things themselues are, doth know them most perfectly. B. adv. †1. More inward or within. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 6199 Drightin þam badd drau innermare. a1400Sir Perc. 1233 Wold come none innermare For to kythe what he ware. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxvii. 45 Thai will creip innermair. †2. Further on (in a book or writing); ‘below’. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 97 As it is inner more i-write [sicut infra dicitur]. 1398― Barth. De P.R. iii. xvii. (Tollem. MS.), As it schall be schewid inner more [1582 hereafter; L. ut postea patebit]. |