† dismeasurableadj.
Obsolete.
Beyond measure, immoderate, excessive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree
unmeasurablea1398
dismeasurec1400
dismeasurable1477
dismeasured1483
over1494
endlya1513
intolerable1544
wide1574
overloading1576
unconscionable1576
meanless1587
powerable1588
hyperbolical1589
extravagant1598
grievous1632
flagrant1634
exorbitant1648
overbearinga1708
unbalanced1712
well-favoured1746
steep1856
thick1884
ripe1918
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 20 To whom he gaf so demesurable a stroke in the middes of his shelde, that he percyd hit.
Derivatives
disˈmeasurably adv. immoderately, excessively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] > excessively or immoderately
too971
unimeteOE
unmethelyOE
overmetec1225
un-i-methc1225
unmeetly?c1225
unmethc1225
overgarta1333
outrageouslya1387
outrageousc1390
unreasonablyc1400
outragelya1425
unmoderately?a1425
inordinatelyc1450
unrulilyc1456
dismeasurably1474
immoderately1482
overharda1500
unreasonable1535
furiously1555
intemperately1576
overliberally1578
unconscionably1583
unconscionable1596
exorbitantlya1635
undulya1779
owdaciously1848
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vii. 140 I make them live in misery, that I see lyue dismesurably.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 40 To the knight..he gaf a strook so dismesurably that he clefte his hede.
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