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† eˈnormious, a. Obs.
Also 6 -iouse, -eous, inormious.
[f. L. ēnormi-s (see enorm) + -ous.]
1. Deviating from ordinary rule or type, irregular, extraordinary; = enormous 1 and 3.
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3) Enormious, out of square, vnorderly. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 151 And I have..beheld much enormious proceedings..both in the Commissioners and in their Officers. 1656Artif. Handsom. 60 (T.) The enormious additions of their artificial heights.
2. Of persons or their actions: Extraordinarily wicked, outrageous, monstrous; = enormous 2.
1545Udall tr. Erasm. Par. Luke 67 a, Enormeous..sins. 1552Bale Apol. 99 That detestable professyon of a lyfe so enormiouse. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 47 To give the King to vnderstand the inormious abuse thereof. 1609Bible (Douay) Jer. l. comm., God..is severe when he punisheth enormious sinners. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. (1650) 420 To prevent some enormious act. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advert. from Parnassus 24 Those inormious and hatefull loathsomenesses. 1665J. Sergeant Sure-footing 91 If the motions he had to keep him good were very strong and efficacious, he is still more enormious.
Hence † eˈnormiously, adv.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 59 Those many errors and mistakings, whereinto they so often and enormiously fell. Ibid. 68 Thousands of bad Christians, who have..profaned enormiously that sacred name of Unction. |