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▪ I. enorm|ɪˈnɔːm|
Forms: 5–7 enorme, 6– enorm.
[a. Fr. énorme:—L. ēnormis, f. ē out + norma mason's square, pattern.]
†1. Deviating from the ordinary rule or type; unusual, extraordinary, extravagant. Obs.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Good Mann. (1570) D iiij, A pure minde and simple..With none enorme maners, nor grieuous spot of crime. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 53 Seand the se so furius and enorme. 1638Read Chirurg. xxiv. 180 If any enorme wound fall out whereby there is a solution of unity in the jaw bones. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxii, Nought scorching, nought glowing, nothing enorm. a1734North Exam. ii. v. ⁋163 (1740) 420 The Author..should have..said not a Word of the Matter, much less given in the enorm Depositions in the very Words.
†2. Of sins and crimes (rarely of persons): Abnormally wicked, monstrous, outrageous. Obs.
1481Caxton Myrr. ii. viii. 82 The grete and enorme synnes that they [Sodom and Gomorrha] commysed. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 17/2 Heere commeth the enorme and horrible abuse of excommunication. 1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 447 The said desperate & enorme persons. 1600Fairfax Tasso viii. lxxi, The neast of treason false and guile enorme. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 318 The enorm crimes..whereof he was guilty.
3. Abnormally large, vast, monstrous; = enormous 3. arch.
1581Savile Tacitus' Agric. (1622) 188 But there is beside a huge and enorme tract of ground. 1609Holland Amm. Marcel xxxi. ii. 402 The Alani..wander..in..enorme and huge cantons [pagos immensos]. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 286 Expecting to see an enorm spectre. 1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves II. 281 Condensed blackness and abysmal storm..Arms the Grasp enorm. 1871G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imag. II. 169 Mocking the enorm Strength on its forehead.
b. Sc. Law. enorm † hurt, enorm lesion (in Roman Civil Law læsio ultra dimidium vel enormis). An injury (sustained by one of the parties to a contract) which amounts to more than one-half the value of the subject-matter.
c1550Sir. J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 179 (Jam.) All contractes,—made by minoris in thair les age, to thair enorm hurt and skaith, ar of nane avail. 1888Ld. Halsbury in Law Times Rep. (N.S.) LIX. 2/2 Validity, subject to reduction on the ground of enorm lesion, of the contract in question.
4. quasi-n.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 356 It sould proceid..As neidfull war withoutin ony enorme.
▪ II. † eˈnorm, v. Obs.
In 7 also inorm.
[f. prec.]
trans. To make monstrous. Frequent in Davies.
1602J. Davies Mirum in Mod. C iii. Then lets hee Fiends the fantacie enorme With strong delusions and with passions dire. 1612― Muse's Sacrifice (Grosart) 15 To help my hatefull hands that sinne inorm'd. |