† infimousadj.
Obsolete.
Very low or base; basest.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
low?c1225
undignec1315
unfreec1330
base?1518
roynish1570
baseborn1573
base-minded1573
haskardly1576
ignoble1592
unnoble1593
slavish1597
disnoble1609
infimous1613
unhandsome1645
unheroical1656
mean1665
unworthy1694
unheroic1732
raff1761
undignified1782
raffish1795
truculent1825
unpromotable1836
menial1837
low-flung1841
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] > most
infimous1613
1613 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 172 A man risen by subtletie and his tongue from infimous condition.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 159 They vowed to suffer losse, I say not of life, but of the infimous goods of fortune, for the cause of the Gospel.
1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 476 A yong heire, who valuing not his father's labours, because of his ignorance, put most of his papers..to infimous uses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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