† dismeasuredadj.
Obsolete.
1.
a. Unmeasured; out of measure; immoderate, excessive; going beyond bounds, unrestrained.
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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
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 123/3 I..wende to haue saued the and thou art desmesured in worldly loue and flesshly.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.ij I wyll not that my penne bee so dismeasured to reproue so muche the aunciente men.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie 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.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge
unmeeteOE
unmeetlyOE
hugea1275
hideousc1330
infinitec1385
unmeasureda1398
unmeasurablec1405
hugyc1420
immeasurable1440
ingentc1450
unmeetlyc1450
giant1480
immense1490
monstrous?a1513
unmeasurely1513
hugeousa1529
unportable1537
enormous1544
enormc1560
giantly1561
immensible1579
rouncival1582
dismeasured1584
vast1585
immeasured1590
gargantuan1596
omnipotent1596
colossian1601
immane1601
prodigious1601
Polyphemian1602
Titanian1603
titanical1603
gigantical1604
immensive1604
gigantine1605
colossic1607
gigantean1611
Gogmagotical1612
gigantal?1614
Babylonian1617
leviathan1625
titanic1628
elephantine1631
gigantive1638
colossean1644
decumanal1652
immensurate1654
gigant1658
decuman1659
colossal1664
abnormous1710
Brobdingnagian1728
Brobdingnag1731
Pantagruelian1737
heroic1785
Patagonian1786
seven-league1787
Titan1793
gigantic1797
seven-leagued1799
mammoth1801
dimensionless1813
tremendous1813
gigantesque1821
monster1837
titanesque1838
monstre1840
giantlike1847
leviathanic1848
pythonic1851
Babylonic1853
supercolossal1871
giantesque1909
behemothian1910
supergiant1919
ginormous1942
big-ass1945
Ozymandian1961
fuck-off1962
mega1968
humongous1970
monstro1970
big-assed1972
big-arsed1996
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 10v A wyld bore strangely dismeasured and overgrowne.
2. Wrongly measured; in false measure.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective] > in false measure
dismeasured1574
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 78 To them hee giueth all things variable, dismesured, & by false waight.
3. as adv. Immoderately.
ΚΠ
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. djv/2 O Paynym dysmesured, al day thou vauntest the.
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