numberousadj.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvij So, these same two, tongue puisaunte knyghts, With scoulding, ginn the fyghte. The auditorye numberouse.

1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 156 Fore passed life I ouer canvassing Found my great sins exceeding numberous.

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 26 A more honorable or more numberous senate.

1670 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1910) 3rd Ser. III. 124 Upon notice of any numberous conventicle keeped since..November last.

a1714 Earl of Cromarty Hist. Family Mackenzie in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 468 A people who..are numberous in Lochbroome.

1788 J. Madison in Federalist Papers xlix. 110 The members of the executive and judiciary departments are few in number... The members of the legislative department, on the other hand, are numberous.

1877 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 31/2 We had plenty of hay in the farms of Vogum, Strond and Reikjahlid, so numberous flocks of sheep were driven to our farms.

1936 Ecology 17 235 Hanceville fine sandy loam with its numberous variations as regards degree of slope and stoniness is one of the most extensive soils in the Quachita mountain region.

1963 Amer. Naturalist 97 194 Foliage distribution of territories and habitats occupied by several North American species, including those most numberous.

2002 Observer (Nexis) 9 June 20 The..supporters did their bit for a carnival atmosphere, but the more numberous blocks of empty green seats told of sporting interests elsewhere in June.