unmeasuredadj.n.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈmɛʒəd/, U.S.

/ˌənˈmɛʒərd/

Forms: Middle English vnmesurd, Middle English vnmesurde, Middle English vnmesurid, Middle English–1500s vnmesured, 1500s vnmeasurde, 1500s–1600s vnmeasurd, 1500s–1600s vnmeasured, 1600s– unmeasured; also Scottish pre-1700 vnmesurit, 1800s unmezzuret, 1900s– oonmizzured (Shetland).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, measure v., -ed suffix¹; un- prefix¹, measure n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: Partly < un- prefix¹ + measure v. + -ed suffix¹, and partly < un- prefix¹ + measure n. + -ed suffix². Compare later measured adj.

A. adj.

a. That cannot be measured to determine magnitude, extent, or quantity; incalculable; immense, vast. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3b.In quot. a1398: immeasurable in power. In quot. 1991 in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

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

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge > therefore not able to be measured or estimated

unachteleda1325

inestimablec1374

unmeasureda1398

untolda1400

measurelessc1400

unmeasurablec1400

immeasurable1440

immensurable1535

unestimable1542

modeless1583

immeasured1590

unvalued1590

countless1593

unrecomptless1593

inestimate1614

starlike1616

unmeted1635

inestimal1678

invaluablea1694

immensurate1720

incalculablea1797

uncountable1858

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. x. iv. 558 [Fire] is clepid vnmesured for his vertue..cresiþ wiþouten ende.

1398 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 38 Thai ar..commovne trew brekaris and vnmesurit harmis has done.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. iii. 33 The stature of a woman cloathed after the Grecian fashion, of bignes vnmeasured.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 78 So from the ships and tents the army's store Troop'd to these princes..along th' unmeasur'd shore.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 420 This ample azure Sky,..With Stars unnumber'd, and unmeasur'd Light.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 85 When..Such startler cast his glance below, And saw unmeasured depth around.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 2 Pale stars..make heaven so vast That earth..Seems shrunken 'neath the grey unmeasured height.

1950 J. Stafford in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories 1951 (1951) 308 The black unmeasured water was hidden beneath a lid of ice.

1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) i. 20 Egypt is the sounding line for the unmeasured abyss of European history.

b. Of a quality, feeling, action, event, etc.: great in degree, intensity, or extent; infinite, unlimited. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > infinite or unlimited

finitea1400

infinite1413

unmeasuredc1429

immoderatec1508

unbounded1646

unhoopable1672

ensophic1693

unlimited1702

unboundc1725

unpartial1787

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3024 Gods vnmesured bountee.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 29 (MED) Prudence abydeth vnmevable, euyr the same eternally, vnmesured, of a Godely power.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 242^v I abandoned the place,..to extende my selfe into an infinite number of perilles,..for the onely feruent and vnmeasured loue which I bare you.

?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. C3 If vnmeasured greefe of heart, could atchieue a vertuous motion, bende your attentions, readilie to heare.

1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 22 I have stroven..with their tricks of unmeasured greatenes.

1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace 4 Distracted Lewis can descry Only a long unmeasur'd Ruine nigh.

1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 160 A Son, for whom be this your Pray'r..God grant him an unmeasur'd Skair Of a' that grac'd his great Forbeers.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §179 The unmeasured violence of the sea.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 116 Wolsey..combined practical sagacity with an unmeasured power of hoping.

1887 E. B. Washburne Recoll. Minister to France, 1869–77 II. viii. 276 Two years before, it said, the event would have caused unmeasured joy; to-day, it is of no importance.

1945 M. Moore Let. 23 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 457 Bryher..must be happy..in some ways,—for her unmeasured giving and her pride in others, and her unselfpitying courage.

2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate (Book Club ed.) xiv. 258 Thinkers with collectivist sympathies have tried to eke out a place for unmeasured generosity by invoking group selection.

c. Of God or a god. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3c, infinite adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > unbounded or unmeasurable

unmeasuredc1475

unmeasurable1533

unboundless1624

unboundeda1711

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fifteen Ooes (Laud) l. 76 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 240 (MED) O gracyous Iesu, forgere of the hevene..Vnmesured, and al thyng mayst mesure.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 31 (MED) Þou streynest of the iugementes of the vnmesured Godhede.

1581 T. R. Right Christian Treat. xxviii. 115 O Most hie, most holie,..and most strong God;..vnmeasured, vncomprehended, without end.

1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxii, in Steps to Temple 58 That the unmeasur'd God so low should sinke, As Pris'ner in a few poore Rags to lye.

1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Mar. 245/1 The great and unmeasured god O-lo-han.

1905 F. C. Conybeare in Rituale Armenorum 12 (note) The unmeasured God makes his house and sanctuary of our measurable nature, albeit his nature is ever extended and limitless.

2007 E. J. Churchill Spyglass Acct. xxix. 147 Where he had faith in mathematics, Rena had faith in an unseen and unmeasured god.

2. That has not been measured or measured out; unknown as to size or quantity.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1380 Oure grete made and mesured al þe wyde world; and deled þe prouynce..in teritories..and perches, in pace, cubites and feete, spannes and hande bredes... Þey lefte noþing vnmesured, fro þe moste to þe leste.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xii. f. 371^v You will not..be vtterly ignoraunt of the solide quantities of this Cylinder and Cone here compared..neither can their croked superficies remayne vnmeasured.

1661 G. Bishop New Eng. Judged 146 Corn unmeasured esteemed worth 01 16 00.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 320 Of an unmeasured fluid, we can only reason by conjecture.

1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 10 You must pedestrianize it for a few unmeasured miles over hill and dale.

1906 Arch. Roentgen Ray 11 20/2 Those who administer small unmeasured doses at intervals.

2008 D. J. Hand Statistics: Very Short Introd. vi. 105 Some of the relationships are caused by unmeasured latent variables which are related to some of the observed variables.

3. Not moderated or tempered; unrestrained; (also) uncontrolled. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree

overmeteeOE

unmeeteOE

unimeteOE

unmethelyOE

over-mickleOE

hoflesc1175

overmucha1300

unskilwisea1340

unskilfulc1370

luxuriousc1374

overseemingc1384

superfluec1384

unreasonablea1387

outrageousc1390

over-greatc1390

overlargec1390

overgrowna1398

unmeasurablea1398

unmoderatea1398

unordinatea1398

immoderate1398

rankc1400

overabundantc1410

excessivea1420

superabundant?a1425

unmeasureda1425

superfluousc1475

nimious?c1500

surfeitc1500

overliberala1535

torc1540

exceeding1548

distemperate1557

over-ranka1568

overswelling1582

accessive1583

overaboundinga1600

overteeming1603

excessful1633

overproportionated1647

superproportioned1652

over-proportioned1662

overproportionate1672

unduea1684

unequal1704

unmerciful1707

hypermetric1854

hypertrophied1879

over the top1980

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic

fleshyc1369

windya1382

unmeasureda1425

puffing1566

embossed1578

puffed1587

bombasted1589

fustian1592

puffya1594

full-mouthed1594

orificial1594

gouty1595

swelling1597

mouth-filling1598

taffeta1598

bombast1601

tiptoe-strouting1602

turgidous1602

swollen1605

dropsieda1616

exsufflicatea1616

turgent1621

ampullous1622

tympanous1625

high-flown1632

tumorousa1637

blustered1638

tumid1648

bombastical1649

ranting1650

inflated1652

tuftaffetya1658

pompiona1670

bombastic1704

dropsical1721

thundering1725

turgid1725

exsuffolate1744

Lexiphanic1767

hi cockalorum1783

Ossianic1788

mouthing1814

mouthy1827

sophomoric1837

highfalutin1839

sophomorical1847

spread eagle1853

tumescent1882

Herodian1886

Ossianesque1889

Barnumesque1890

a1425 (?a1400) Benjamin Minor (Harl. 674) in P. Hodgson Deonise hid Diuinite (1955) 16 (MED) Þees felynges in a mans soule mowen be now ordeind & mesurid, & now vnordeind & vnmesurid.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 14 (MED) Ire that is vnmesured and felonye the woode maken me voide the hous in which thei haue here habitacoun.

?1542 Generall Free Pardon sig. B.i^v For all thynges what euer is vnmesured, maketh dyssolucyon of soule.

1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste iv. iii. f. 168 Vnmeasured sleepe, is not onely forbidden by philosophers and phisiciens, but also, is a thing odious to the wise, & vertuous.

1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iv. 254 They are sufficiently punish'd for their boldness by the sad dyscrasies of their wrong'd bodies, as..the Vomits of unmeasur'd Drinking.

1718 Free-thinker No. 22. 102 The Prejudice, that blinds him, is gross Ignorance of the Nature of God, and an unmeasured Opinion of his own Excellency.

1780 G. Savile in J. Almon Biogr., Literary & Polit. Anecd. App. 308 The Minister's direct interest..requiring him..by headlong and unmeasured extravagance, to have the means of justifying, to the faithful Commons, his former mismanagement and misdeeds.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 287 The unmeasured eulogies he bestows upon him.

1884 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 434 The habitual use of unmeasured language [in criticism].

1912 W. C. Herring tr. A. Thomas Cerebellar Function ix. 165 Lewandowsky mentions unmeasured movements of the fore paw when the animal tries to seize a bone.

2012 H. Svebakken Philo of Alexandria's Expos. 10th Commandm. iv. 147 To indulge the initial impulse to eat and drink..would be to act strictly on a motive for pleasure, which amounts to indulging an unmeasured, excessive impulse.

a. Of words, verse, etc.: not consisting of measures or metrical groups; not metrical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > unmetrical

immetrical1598

unmeasured1604

numberlessa1658

unmetrical1765

innumerous1886

metreless1892

1604 J. Cooke Epigrames xxxiv. sig. C4 A Curious Gallant chanc't to haue a sight, Of these slight Epigrames first infancie, Who Pedunt wise did tax them..Of their lame harsh vnmeasurd quantities.

1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry i. 7 Our ancient Verse, (as homely as the Times,) Was rude, unmeasur'd, only Tagg'd with Rhimes.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Poetry These, in a Discourse that has no poetical Feet or Measures, do yet give it the poetical Character, and make it a kind of unmeasured Poetry.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 9 It is necessary..to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language.

1900 London Q. Rev. Oct. 384 To take the unmeasured lines and cut them into stanzas, whilst sacrificing nothing of their spirit to the exigences of rhyme and rhythm.

2006 M. Williams Making Poem 51 In unmeasured verse this effect would have been unavailable to the poet.

b. Music. Not having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; not mensural (mensural adj. 1).

ΚΠ

1849 Musical Times 3 238/2 While the choir was well filled with monks from the neighbouring abbey, there must have always been grandeur of effect; and in the single tones of the rough, unmeasured music, qualities calculated to wear well.

1861 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 26 Jan. 345/3 The music of the chansons of Count Thibaut is stamped with grace and nature; it is still but a kind of unmeasured plain chant.

1904 R. D. Blackman Voice, Speech & Gesture 1107 Unmeasured music, that is to say, music without any regular accent, is, at least in modern times, almost unknown.

1955 Music & Lett. 36 194 To what extent can it [sc. stile concitato] be traced back to unmeasured chanting as in Victoria's ‘Miserere’ of 1585?

2003 D. Matthews Britten 135 There is no conductor; the melodic lines are mostly unmeasured.

B. n.

That which is unmeasured (sense A. 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite

infinity1377

infinite1587

infinitive1595

incomprehensibility1610

immensitya1631

infinitude1667

infinitum1682

unmeasured1812

endlessness1820

unconditioned1829

illimitable1884

out and out1890

boundless1909

1812 T. Taylor Diss. Philos. Aristotle ii. i. 203 A circular form..does not converge to itself; but as far as pertains to itself is diffused to the unmeasured and the infinite.

1889 D. B. Purinton Christian Theism vi. 197 The unmeasured is not necessarily the infinite.

1928 W. E. B. Du Bois Dark Princess (1995) iv. 265 We have to fight it; to outguess it; to know the unknown and measure the unmeasured.

1994 A. D. Moody in A. Baldwin Platonism & Eng. Imagination xxviii. 310 In Pythagorean terms it is the measured which manifests the primal light, while the unmeasured is what is not informed by it.

Compounds

(Cf. note at un- prefix¹ 2c.)

† unmeasured out adj. Obsolete rare dealt out in unregulated or unlimited quantities.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > liberal or unstinted in quantity

sparelessa1400

liberalc1405

ample1447

unstinted1480

superaboundinga1513

rich1561

handsome1577

free1635

unstraitened1665

unmeasured out1667

generous1720

usurious1780

stintless1844

showering1892

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 399 Our Nourisher, from whom All perfet good unmeasur'd out, descends.

Derivatives

unˈmeasuredly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > immeasurably or inestimably

unimetelya1240

unmeasurablyc1390

unmeasurablec1443

inestimablec1460

inestimablya1530

uncountably1599

invaluably1601

unmeasuredly1602

immeasurably1631

incommensurably1652

incalculably1806

measurelessly1839

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F3^v This vengeance..will lengthen out My daies vnmeasuredly.

1669 G. Burnet Modest Conf. between Conformist & Non-conformist (ed. 2) vi. 98 I must confesse I was unmeasuredly furious.

1829 F. B. B. St. Leger Tales of Passion II. xiv. 200 The motives..were..of infinitely deeper guilt than those of which she spoke thus unmeasuredly.

1903 Standard 2 Apr. 7/3 It openly denounces, in unmeasuredly violent terms, the rank deceit and hypocrisy of the Sultan.

1993 P. McAuliffe Fund. Ethics iv. 124 Our love is gratuitous and excessive if we give unmeasuredly.

unˈmeasuredness n. rare before 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > unmeasured or unmeasurable

unmeasuredness1435

immensityc1450

immeasurableness1561

immeasurability1824

measurelessness1854

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]

unimetec888

unmethelOE

overdeeda1200

unmetheshipa1250

outragec1325

ragec1330

reveriec1350

delavinessc1380

recolagea1400

dissolutionc1400

superfluityc1405

wantonness1448

intemperancy1532

intemperacy?1541

untemperance?1541

intemperance1547

excess1552

immoderateness1569

intemperateness1571

unbridledness1571

inordinateness1577

untemperateness1578

dissoluteness1580

acrasia1590

acrasy1590

intemperature1602

inordination1615

inordinancya1617

immoderation1640

extravagancy1651

debauch1672

extravagance1676

incontinency1715

extravaganza1754

incontinence1836

unmeasuredness1864

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 75 No mare-vayle þof I..vnmesurdnes of þat endles swetnes to ȝow may not opyn.

1864 G. Gilfillan Jrnl. 4 Mar. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1892) 372 I intend considering..the energy—the unmeasuredness—of their life.

1910 Arch. Diagnosis 3 43 The..unmeasuredness of the movements of the cerebellar patient, in whom the walk is like that of a drunkard.

1999 J. Dillon in P. Athanassiadi & M. Frede Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiq. iii. 73 Note here the same combination of light, unmeasuredness, and superiority to all measure that we find in the Apocryphon of John.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unmeasured
释义	unmeasuredadj.n. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈmɛʒəd/, U.S. /ˌənˈmɛʒərd/ Forms: Middle English vnmesurd, Middle English vnmesurde, Middle English vnmesurid, Middle English–1500s vnmesured, 1500s vnmeasurde, 1500s–1600s vnmeasurd, 1500s–1600s vnmeasured, 1600s– unmeasured; also Scottish pre-1700 vnmesurit, 1800s unmezzuret, 1900s– oonmizzured (Shetland). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, measure v., -ed suffix¹; un- prefix¹, measure n., -ed suffix². Etymology: Partly < un- prefix¹ + measure v. + -ed suffix¹, and partly < un- prefix¹ + measure n. + -ed suffix². Compare later measured adj. A. adj. 1. a. That cannot be measured to determine magnitude, extent, or quantity; incalculable; immense, vast. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3b.In quot. a1398: immeasurable in power. In quot. 1991 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge > therefore not able to be measured or estimated unachteleda1325 inestimablec1374 unmeasureda1398 untolda1400 measurelessc1400 unmeasurablec1400 immeasurable1440 immensurable1535 unestimable1542 modeless1583 immeasured1590 unvalued1590 countless1593 unrecomptless1593 inestimate1614 starlike1616 unmeted1635 inestimal1678 invaluablea1694 immensurate1720 incalculablea1797 uncountable1858 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. x. iv. 558 [Fire] is clepid vnmesured for his vertue..cresiþ wiþouten ende. 1398 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 38 Thai ar..commovne trew brekaris and vnmesurit harmis has done. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. iii. 33 The stature of a woman cloathed after the Grecian fashion, of bignes vnmeasured. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 78 So from the ships and tents the army's store Troop'd to these princes..along th' unmeasur'd shore. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 420 This ample azure Sky,..With Stars unnumber'd, and unmeasur'd Light. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 85 When..Such startler cast his glance below, And saw unmeasured depth around. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 2 Pale stars..make heaven so vast That earth..Seems shrunken 'neath the grey unmeasured height. 1950 J. Stafford in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories 1951 (1951) 308 The black unmeasured water was hidden beneath a lid of ice. 1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) i. 20 Egypt is the sounding line for the unmeasured abyss of European history. b. Of a quality, feeling, action, event, etc.: great in degree, intensity, or extent; infinite, unlimited. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > infinite or unlimited finitea1400 infinite1413 unmeasuredc1429 immoderatec1508 unbounded1646 unhoopable1672 ensophic1693 unlimited1702 unboundc1725 unpartial1787 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3024 Gods vnmesured bountee. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 29 (MED) Prudence abydeth vnmevable, euyr the same eternally, vnmesured, of a Godely power. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 242^v I abandoned the place,..to extende my selfe into an infinite number of perilles,..for the onely feruent and vnmeasured loue which I bare you. ?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. C3 If vnmeasured greefe of heart, could atchieue a vertuous motion, bende your attentions, readilie to heare. 1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 22 I have stroven..with their tricks of unmeasured greatenes. 1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace 4 Distracted Lewis can descry Only a long unmeasur'd Ruine nigh. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 160 A Son, for whom be this your Pray'r..God grant him an unmeasur'd Skair Of a' that grac'd his great Forbeers. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §179 The unmeasured violence of the sea. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 116 Wolsey..combined practical sagacity with an unmeasured power of hoping. 1887 E. B. Washburne Recoll. Minister to France, 1869–77 II. viii. 276 Two years before, it said, the event would have caused unmeasured joy; to-day, it is of no importance. 1945 M. Moore Let. 23 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 457 Bryher..must be happy..in some ways,—for her unmeasured giving and her pride in others, and her unselfpitying courage. 2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate (Book Club ed.) xiv. 258 Thinkers with collectivist sympathies have tried to eke out a place for unmeasured generosity by invoking group selection. c. Of God or a god. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 3c, infinite adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > unbounded or unmeasurable unmeasuredc1475 unmeasurable1533 unboundless1624 unboundeda1711 c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fifteen Ooes (Laud) l. 76 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 240 (MED) O gracyous Iesu, forgere of the hevene..Vnmesured, and al thyng mayst mesure. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 31 (MED) Þou streynest of the iugementes of the vnmesured Godhede. 1581 T. R. Right Christian Treat. xxviii. 115 O Most hie, most holie,..and most strong God;..vnmeasured, vncomprehended, without end. 1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxii, in Steps to Temple 58 That the unmeasur'd God so low should sinke, As Pris'ner in a few poore Rags to lye. 1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Mar. 245/1 The great and unmeasured god O-lo-han. 1905 F. C. Conybeare in Rituale Armenorum 12 (note) The unmeasured God makes his house and sanctuary of our measurable nature, albeit his nature is ever extended and limitless. 2007 E. J. Churchill Spyglass Acct. xxix. 147 Where he had faith in mathematics, Rena had faith in an unseen and unmeasured god. 2. That has not been measured or measured out; unknown as to size or quantity. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1380 Oure grete made and mesured al þe wyde world; and deled þe prouynce..in teritories..and perches, in pace, cubites and feete, spannes and hande bredes... Þey lefte noþing vnmesured, fro þe moste to þe leste. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xii. f. 371^v You will not..be vtterly ignoraunt of the solide quantities of this Cylinder and Cone here compared..neither can their croked superficies remayne vnmeasured. 1661 G. Bishop New Eng. Judged 146 Corn unmeasured esteemed worth 01 16 00. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 320 Of an unmeasured fluid, we can only reason by conjecture. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 10 You must pedestrianize it for a few unmeasured miles over hill and dale. 1906 Arch. Roentgen Ray 11 20/2 Those who administer small unmeasured doses at intervals. 2008 D. J. Hand Statistics: Very Short Introd. vi. 105 Some of the relationships are caused by unmeasured latent variables which are related to some of the observed variables. 3. Not moderated or tempered; unrestrained; (also) uncontrolled. Cf. unmeasurable adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 a1425 (?a1400) Benjamin Minor (Harl. 674) in P. Hodgson Deonise hid Diuinite (1955) 16 (MED) Þees felynges in a mans soule mowen be now ordeind & mesurid, & now vnordeind & vnmesurid. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 14 (MED) Ire that is vnmesured and felonye the woode maken me voide the hous in which thei haue here habitacoun. ?1542 Generall Free Pardon sig. B.i^v For all thynges what euer is vnmesured, maketh dyssolucyon of soule. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste iv. iii. f. 168 Vnmeasured sleepe, is not onely forbidden by philosophers and phisiciens, but also, is a thing odious to the wise, & vertuous. 1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iv. 254 They are sufficiently punish'd for their boldness by the sad dyscrasies of their wrong'd bodies, as..the Vomits of unmeasur'd Drinking. 1718 Free-thinker No. 22. 102 The Prejudice, that blinds him, is gross Ignorance of the Nature of God, and an unmeasured Opinion of his own Excellency. 1780 G. Savile in J. Almon Biogr., Literary & Polit. Anecd. App. 308 The Minister's direct interest..requiring him..by headlong and unmeasured extravagance, to have the means of justifying, to the faithful Commons, his former mismanagement and misdeeds. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 287 The unmeasured eulogies he bestows upon him. 1884 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 434 The habitual use of unmeasured language [in criticism]. 1912 W. C. Herring tr. A. Thomas Cerebellar Function ix. 165 Lewandowsky mentions unmeasured movements of the fore paw when the animal tries to seize a bone. 2012 H. Svebakken Philo of Alexandria's Expos. 10th Commandm. iv. 147 To indulge the initial impulse to eat and drink..would be to act strictly on a motive for pleasure, which amounts to indulging an unmeasured, excessive impulse. 4. a. Of words, verse, etc.: not consisting of measures or metrical groups; not metrical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > unmetrical immetrical1598 unmeasured1604 numberlessa1658 unmetrical1765 innumerous1886 metreless1892 1604 J. Cooke Epigrames xxxiv. sig. C4 A Curious Gallant chanc't to haue a sight, Of these slight Epigrames first infancie, Who Pedunt wise did tax them..Of their lame harsh vnmeasurd quantities. 1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry i. 7 Our ancient Verse, (as homely as the Times,) Was rude, unmeasur'd, only Tagg'd with Rhimes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Poetry These, in a Discourse that has no poetical Feet or Measures, do yet give it the poetical Character, and make it a kind of unmeasured Poetry. a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 9 It is necessary..to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language. 1900 London Q. Rev. Oct. 384 To take the unmeasured lines and cut them into stanzas, whilst sacrificing nothing of their spirit to the exigences of rhyme and rhythm. 2006 M. Williams Making Poem 51 In unmeasured verse this effect would have been unavailable to the poet. b. Music. Not having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; not mensural (mensural adj. 1). ΚΠ 1849 Musical Times 3 238/2 While the choir was well filled with monks from the neighbouring abbey, there must have always been grandeur of effect; and in the single tones of the rough, unmeasured music, qualities calculated to wear well. 1861 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 26 Jan. 345/3 The music of the chansons of Count Thibaut is stamped with grace and nature; it is still but a kind of unmeasured plain chant. 1904 R. D. Blackman Voice, Speech & Gesture 1107 Unmeasured music, that is to say, music without any regular accent, is, at least in modern times, almost unknown. 1955 Music & Lett. 36 194 To what extent can it [sc. stile concitato] be traced back to unmeasured chanting as in Victoria's ‘Miserere’ of 1585? 2003 D. Matthews Britten 135 There is no conductor; the melodic lines are mostly unmeasured. B. n. That which is unmeasured (sense A. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite infinity1377 infinite1587 infinitive1595 incomprehensibility1610 immensitya1631 infinitude1667 infinitum1682 unmeasured1812 endlessness1820 unconditioned1829 illimitable1884 out and out1890 boundless1909 1812 T. Taylor Diss. Philos. Aristotle ii. i. 203 A circular form..does not converge to itself; but as far as pertains to itself is diffused to the unmeasured and the infinite. 1889 D. B. Purinton Christian Theism vi. 197 The unmeasured is not necessarily the infinite. 1928 W. E. B. Du Bois Dark Princess (1995) iv. 265 We have to fight it; to outguess it; to know the unknown and measure the unmeasured. 1994 A. D. Moody in A. Baldwin Platonism & Eng. Imagination xxviii. 310 In Pythagorean terms it is the measured which manifests the primal light, while the unmeasured is what is not informed by it. Compounds (Cf. note at un- prefix¹ 2c.) † unmeasured out adj. Obsolete rare dealt out in unregulated or unlimited quantities. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > liberal or unstinted in quantity sparelessa1400 liberalc1405 ample1447 unstinted1480 superaboundinga1513 rich1561 handsome1577 free1635 unstraitened1665 unmeasured out1667 generous1720 usurious1780 stintless1844 showering1892 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 399 Our Nourisher, from whom All perfet good unmeasur'd out, descends. View more context for this quotation Derivatives unˈmeasuredly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > immeasurably or inestimably unimetelya1240 unmeasurablyc1390 unmeasurablec1443 inestimablec1460 inestimablya1530 uncountably1599 invaluably1601 unmeasuredly1602 immeasurably1631 incommensurably1652 incalculably1806 measurelessly1839 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F3^v This vengeance..will lengthen out My daies vnmeasuredly. 1669 G. Burnet Modest Conf. between Conformist & Non-conformist (ed. 2) vi. 98 I must confesse I was unmeasuredly furious. 1829 F. B. B. St. Leger Tales of Passion II. xiv. 200 The motives..were..of infinitely deeper guilt than those of which she spoke thus unmeasuredly. 1903 Standard 2 Apr. 7/3 It openly denounces, in unmeasuredly violent terms, the rank deceit and hypocrisy of the Sultan. 1993 P. McAuliffe Fund. Ethics iv. 124 Our love is gratuitous and excessive if we give unmeasuredly. unˈmeasuredness n. rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > unmeasured or unmeasurable unmeasuredness1435 immensityc1450 immeasurableness1561 immeasurability1824 measurelessness1854 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] unimetec888 unmethelOE overdeeda1200 unmetheshipa1250 outragec1325 ragec1330 reveriec1350 delavinessc1380 recolagea1400 dissolutionc1400 superfluityc1405 wantonness1448 intemperancy1532 intemperacy?1541 untemperance?1541 intemperance1547 excess1552 immoderateness1569 intemperateness1571 unbridledness1571 inordinateness1577 untemperateness1578 dissoluteness1580 acrasia1590 acrasy1590 intemperature1602 inordination1615 inordinancya1617 immoderation1640 extravagancy1651 debauch1672 extravagance1676 incontinency1715 extravaganza1754 incontinence1836 unmeasuredness1864 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 75 No mare-vayle þof I..vnmesurdnes of þat endles swetnes to ȝow may not opyn. 1864 G. Gilfillan Jrnl. 4 Mar. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1892) 372 I intend considering..the energy—the unmeasuredness—of their life. 1910 Arch. Diagnosis 3 43 The..unmeasuredness of the movements of the cerebellar patient, in whom the walk is like that of a drunkard. 1999 J. Dillon in P. Athanassiadi & M. Frede Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiq. iii. 73 Note here the same combination of light, unmeasuredness, and superiority to all measure that we find in the Apocryphon of John. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1398
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