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immoderate, a.|ɪˈmɒdərət|
Also 5 in-.
[ad. L. immoderāt-us unbounded, unrestrained, excessive, f. im- (im-2) + moderātus moderate.]
1. Not moderate; exceeding usual or proper limits; excessive, extravagant, too great.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (1495) 460 Inmoderate heete greuyth fysshe. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 48 a, Immoderate slepe maketh the body apt vnto palsies. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 471 By reason of these immoderate expenses he became so bare, that [etc.] 1712Budgell Spect. No. 277 ⁋14 Her Necklace was of an immoderate length. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 576 His immoderate zeal against the unfortunate clan.
b. Of persons: Wanting in moderation; going beyond reasonable bounds in action or opinion; extreme.
c1450Lydg. Secrees 939 In his departyng whoo is inmoderat, This to seyn whoo is nat mesurable In his Rychesse but disordinat, Is Callyd prodigus. 1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 279 Pindarus was immoderate in the ornaments of his poesie. 1791Burke Th. French Aff. Wks. VII. 45 The..government..which the immoderate republicans began so very lately to introduce into Holland. 1890Daily News 12 Dec. 3/3 Mr. Labouchere..said..He was not a moderate but an immoderate Liberal.
†2. Unrestrained in feeling, passions, or conduct; intemperate. Obs. (exc. as implied in 1).
1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. B iij, A man wrothe is so immoderat that he knowith not what he sayth. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest Pref., I therefore desire a Reader not learned, but vnskilfull: yet rather learned than immoderate. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 55 Those immoderate courses of his youth. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 19 note, Alexander was continent, yet immoderate. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Immoderate, observing no measure, intemperate beyond excess.
†3. Without limits, boundless; very great. rare.
c1480St. Ursula (Roxb.) A vij, To be theyr guides he sent his aungels bryght Athwart them to hauven thrugh his immoderate myght. 1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 745 An heav'nly Maid walks in..Immod'rate Grace Spoke things far more than Human in her Face. |