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unˈdeemous, a. Sc. and † north.
Forms: 4 vndemes, 6 vndemus, -ous, 9 undeemous, -deemis, ondeemas, etc.
[ad. ON. údœ́mis, gen. of údœ́mi (Norw. udøme, MSw. odome) an unexampled or monstrous thing or deed, f. ú- un-1 + dœ́mi example, instance, related to deem v., doom n. The ending has partly been taken as -ous.]
Unexampled, unparalleled, extraordinary, remarkable.
a1300Cursor M. 23235 (Gött.), The fiȝft [pain] es vndemes of dint [Cott. vndemnes dint; Edinb. vndemenes of dint], þat þa wreches þar sal hint. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. i. vii. (1541) 6 b/2 Suppone we be vincust (quhilk may nocht succeid but vndemus murdir of ȝow) then sall ye be ane facyll pray to ȝour ennymes. Ibid. vi. xvi. 76 b/2 Thay ruschit..on the said Romanis; and maid sic vndemus slauchter on thaym, that [etc.]. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 349 Edward..gathiris..ane armie vndemous. 1808Jamieson s.v., Undeemis..money, a countless sum. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb x, An ondeemas thing o'siller.
Hence unˈdeemously adv. Sc.
1846W. Cross Disruption xiv, It's groun just undeemously since we cam' to Embro'. |