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b. and more: and a larger quantity, amount, or number than that specified (frequently used to express an indefinite excess over a figure stated approximately). Formerly also (Scottish) †with the mair. Cf. sense A. 1d.In early Scottish use also with more modified by an adjective expressing degree (see quots. c1580, c1626).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than
and morec1230
and (also or) upward1555
and upwards1570
upward of1623
upwards of1721
rising1808
the rise of1834
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 44 Þer ha lei iprisun. fouwer þusent ȝer & mare.
c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 154 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 245 (MED) Al þe contreie hadde i-nouȝ to mete and to sede To ȝer and more of þat corn.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 364 (MED) Niȝen woukes and mare þe mariners flet on flod.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5056 (MED) He..kyst him, fourti sithes and mare.
c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) 205 (MED) I wold ȝeue ten pound, by Iesu Crist, and more.
1450 W. Lomnor in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 36 Peris Brusy..hadde x ma Frenshe men and more.
1470 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 5 Four rodis witht the mar, liande [etc.].
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii* Be it wes mydmorne and mare merkit on the day.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 44 We ar rycht sorie that this is treu for the maist part and mair.
1563–4 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 257 Quhairat thai remanit thir twa yeris bigane, with the mair.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 476 The steppis..Of fyue fute breid and lytill mare.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 48 Had I not Fowre, or fiue women once, that tended me?.. Thou hadst; and more, Miranda.
c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 4 He wes crucified..in the threttie thrid [year] of His aige with sum mair: viz. ane quarter ȝeir or thairby.
1641 in J. G. Smith Strathendrick & Inhabitants (1896) 4 About tua houris and mor therefter.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 294 The Whimbrel..is less by half than the Curlew, hath a crooked Bill, but shorter by an inch and more.
1705 K. Philips Lett. Orinda to Poliarchus xix We have heard nothing from England these ten Days and more.
1735 in R. O. Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. at Rock Now it will be twelve o'clock And more; for I've spun off my rock.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. ix. 386 A man so tost and toiled for twenty-four hours and more.
1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell i. xxv They call me savage, brutal, base, And more.
1894 R. B. Lee Hist. & Descr. Mod. Dogs: Non-sporting Div. iv. 107 The so-called Pyrenean guard dog we often see on our show benches, is a dog some one hundred and twenty pounds weight and more.
1934 Star (Johannesburg) 1 May 13 For the past 50 years and more Free Staters have been known among Dutch-speaking South Africans as Blikore.
1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 12/1 The yield is now placed only at 120 lakh bales against the earlier expectation or 130 lakh bales and more.
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and more
a. As a sentence adverb: furthermore, in addition. Formerly frequently in nay more (now archaic), and more (rare in later use). Formerly also †more above. Cf. mairatour adv., moreover adv.
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 230 Ȝet Mare his children sone se he sunegede deadliche deiden alle clone.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 2446 (MED) And more yit, Of Chapmanhode he fond the weie.
1466 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 235 (MED) Item more, ij hygh Awter clothes..and more, a Massebooke..and more, and hoole Awbe, [etc.].
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 85 Mair, it had bene goode for the commone weill of Scottland that [etc.].
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 127 This in obedience hath my daughter showne me, And more about hath his solicitings..All giuen to mine eare.
1605 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 20 A peare of silver Crookes..more two Chestes... More a peare of water barrells.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 177 We are betroathd: nay more, our mariage howre..Determin'd of. View more context for this quotation
1683 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De Natura Rerum (ed. 2) ii. 43 But more, tis nothing strange that every Mass Seems quiet and at rest.
1734 M. Barber Poems 39 Was early learn'd, nay more, was early wise.
1762 T. Bridges Homer Travestie I. iv. 189 She guides his weapon where she list; Nay more, a touch of her soft hand, If fallen down, will make him stand.
1816 J. Keats Epist. to C. C. Clarke 57 Miltonian storms, and more, Miltonian tenderness.
1870 G. W. Dasent Ann. Eventful Life (ed. 4) II. 15 He was industrious, and more, he was handsome.
1905 A. R. Whitham Watchers by Cross ii. 15 Tradition..tells us that she was wealthy, influential and beautiful, and yet before her conversion living a life of worldliness,—more, a life of deadly sin.
1997 Chicago Tribune 17 Aug. vii. 10/4 More, too often, both Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal seem to be coasting on automatic pilot.
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