单词 | sans nombre |
释义 | sans nombresans numbern. Now only Heraldry. Innumerable. Also occasionally as adverb: innumerably, infinitely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > too numerous to be counted innumerable1340 unaimablea1382 infinitec1405 innumerousc1540 sans nombre1550 untolda1586 unreckonable1647 accountless?1650 myriad1654 myriaded1667 legion1687 myriad1765 dunnamany1836 myriadfold1874 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adverb] > to an innumerable extent unnumerably1440 innumerably1574 sans nombre1655 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Fi .vi. thousande Lordes, Knyghtes, & Esquiers, and of the commons sans nombre. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter ciiii. 296 Theare liuing things: saunce number creepe. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 146 Locusts sans number and monstrous. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. Ded. 155 Any Author of a Book may multiply them [sc. Patrons] Sance-number. 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia v. i. 71 We'll swinge these Rogues with Indictments for a Riot, and with Actions Sans Nombre. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 119 Semé, Aspersed, Gerated, Sans Nombre, and Powdered, these terms are used to signify that a Shield or Charge is covered with an indefinite number of minor Charges promiscuously scattered over the surface. Powdered, Gerated, Sans Nombre, and Aspersed, however, commonly imply that the Charges are to be smaller, and more thickly distributed than Semé. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1550 |
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