numerousadj.pron.

Brit.

/ˈnjuːm(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈn(j)um(ə)rəs/

Forms: late Middle English– numerous, 1500s numerouse, 1700s num'rous (poetic).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin numerōsus.

Etymology: < classical Latin numerōsus (in senses A. 1, A. 2, A. 3, and A. 5), in post-classical Latin also in sense A. 4 (5th cent.) < numerus number n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Italian numeroso (c1340), Spanish numeroso (1495), Portuguese numeroso (1589), Middle French, French †numereux (mid 16th cent.). Compare numerose adj. and also numberous adj.

A. adj.

I. Senses relating to number.

a. Consisting of many individuals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous

so manyc888

thickc893

muchc1225

rifec1275

stourc1275

unridec1300

copiousc1384

plentya1400

rivedc1400

numerable?a1425

numerous?a1475

many a several1543

rank1545

numberous1566

huge1570

multuous1586

multeous1589

numberful1594

numberable1596

numbery1606

numbersomea1617

multitudinousa1631

sand-like1630

voluminous1650

several1712

smart1750

powerful1800

multitudinarious1810

multitudinary1838

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > of individuals, people

mickleeOE

numerous?a1475

strong1533

populous1548

multitudinous1603

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 49 (MED) Hit is to be holden that Asia is moste in quantite, Europa lesse in quantite, but egalle in the numerous generosite [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. noumbre; L. numerosa generositate] of peple.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest iii. 106 If that at anie time hir [sc. the Tiger's] broode or litter (which is numerouse or many) be stolen away in hir absence [etc.].

1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. H5 In vaine had Philip with a numerous hoast From Amiens marched.

1658 in W. Cramond Extracts Rec. Synod of Moray (1906) 126 Who has a numerous family.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 675 Thither wing'd with speed A numerous Brigad hasten'd.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 543 A Cyprian Lord..with a num'rous Issue blest.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 210 Johnson: Garrick had under him a numerous body of people.

1797 Earl of Malmesbury in Diaries & Corr. (1844) III. 596 There is a numerous and safe army.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 297 That very numerous class who are left without instruction in their childhood.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 595 The commoners who had been summoned..formed a numerous assembly.

1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 127 Under the New Empire the votaries of Rā formed a numerous and powerful body.

1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xvi. 240 Germanicus made a forced march, defeated the besieging force, which was not numerous..and rescued Segestes.

1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 170 We all bedded down on mats on the long verandah of the headman's house with his numerous family.

b. Comprising many separate items or examples; plentiful, abundant, copious.Quot. c1586 in N.E.D. shows numbrous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1638) 99 Two that have horns, that while they butting stand, Strike from their feet a cloud of numerous sand.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 60 It abounds with Inhabitants... So numerous in Islands, as they are scarce numerable.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlix. 398 This is a numerous Herb.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 88. ⁋1 I have contracted a numerous Acquaintance among the best Sort of People.

a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 33 The free use of a numerous and learned library.

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 416 In the colonies.., the evil is, if possible, still more numerous.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 36 Now behold the fair inhabitants..from numerous business turn.

1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 125 That testy and perplexed look that comes of numerous business and many interruptions.

1942 G. von Hirschheydt Let. 4 Mar. in N.Y. Rev. Bks. (1997) 20 Nov. 41/1 Hyperbrachycephaly is rare among the Polish Leichenmaterial [i.e. corpse-material], Brachycephaly is more frequent, Mesocephaly and Dolichocephaly very numerous.

1974 W. Condry Woodlands ii. 29 An alien bird that has escaped into the forest..is Lady Amherst's pheasant which is now quite numerous.

1995 Guardian 5 Dec. i. 12/7 Less numerous and not found on every bridge is another member of the Asplenium group.

†c. Composed of many parts; extensive. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale

largea1400

ample1437

farc1475

diffused?1570

spacious1589

extensive1605

wholesale1642

diffuse1644

extense1644

voluminousa1652

amplivagant1656

extentive1658

numerousa1661

extended1700

amplivagous1731

far-reaching1824

Homeric1841

large-scale1856

wholescale1910

wide-scale1925

big-scale1930

macroscopic1931

broadscale1958

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 116 So numerous is the Church with its Appendences..that he can accommodate One Clergy-man, of all Dignities and Degrees..in severall Chapells or Vestries by themselves.

†d. Deriving from a multitude. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > involving multitude

multitudinous1656

numerous1832

1832 L. Hunt Poems 207 With thousand tiny hushings, like a swarm of atom bees..Or noise of numerous bliss from distant sphere.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 218 How long has existed that numerous voice which we designate as ‘Public Opinion’?

a. Containing or including many individuals; crowded, populous. Also with of. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > containing many individuals

numerous?1609

?1609 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads To Rdr. sig. A3 In this Porch to his numerous Phane, Heare auncient Oracles speake.

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 61 Though every Tribe was very numerous of Inhabitants that lived in the City.

1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 149 A Colony thrust out of the fruitful Loyns of some numerous Country.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 140 Both Universities are already sufficiently numerous.

1831 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VI. 214 The dinner.., from being so numerous, had all the ease of a table d'hôte.

1959 J. Wood Krutch Human Nature & Human Condition i. 18 It may well be that any nation not as numerous as it is physically possible for it to become is doomed to conquest by one or other of those bursting at the seams.

†b. Copious, liberal. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective]

custyeOE

room-handeda1200

largea1225

free?c1225

plenteousc1350

bounteousc1374

liberalc1384

free-hearteda1398

ungnedea1400

royalc1405

opena1425

plentifula1475

profuse?a1475

ungrighta1475

lavishc1475

almifluent1477

prodigous1477

frank1484

bountiful1508

largifluent?a1525

munificent1565

magnificent1577

largeous1583

munifical1583

magnifical1586

free-handed1592

frolic1593

open-handed1593

magnific?1594

prodigal1595

goodwillya1598

communicativea1602

real1602

prodig1605

unniggard1605

generous1615

open-hearteda1617

large-handeda1628

unniggardly1628

fluent1633

profusive1638

numerous1655

largifical1656

insordid1660

unsparing1667

dispensive1677

expensive1678

wasteful1701

flush1703

unboundeda1704

genteel1741

munific1745

magnifique1751

ungrudginga1774

unstinting1845

brickish1860

flaithulach1876

princely1889

outgiving1896

sharing1922

two-handed1929

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 152 He delighted more to be numerous with many then ponderous with select quotations.

a. Modifying a plural noun: many; great in number.Now the principal sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective]

feleOE

felefoldc1000

manifoldOE

unfewc1175

mucha1225

many one?a1300

greata1325

manyc1450

numerous1622

maint1706

right smart1825

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. E^v To be parted in their numerous shares.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 23 July (1972) VII. 214 Contriving presses to put my books up in; they now growing numerous.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 8. 48 Letters from Correspondents begin to be very numerous.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 168 Deem life a blessing with its num'rous woes.

1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 449 They are greatly more numerous, and much more frequented.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxv. 363 These shafts..are very numerous in the Unteraar glacier.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables vii. 73 As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all, so I will only mention the two most important.

1952 E. Templeton Island of Desire i. iv. 32 His reputation was enormous... Numerous books had been written about him.

1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 97 Numerous exhibitions organized by Edmund Stadler..helped to rekindle interest in Appia.

b. too numerous to mention: very many, countless, innumerable.

ΚΠ

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple iii. v. 68 A variety of different articles, too numerous to mention.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 39 Corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention.

1915 T. F. A. Smith Soul of Germany 33 The author's opinions on German schools are based upon personal visits to cities and schools too numerous to mention.

1992 A. Pannett Princ. Hotel & Catering Law (ed. 3) 1 The ways in which the caterer is affected by the law are too numerous to mention.

†4. That can be numbered; countable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable

numbrablea1382

numberablea1500

computativea1538

measurable1565

numerable1570

countable1581

accountable1589

computable1610

numerous1638

reckonable1657

summable1718

calculable1742

enumerable1889

scorable1964

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 160 Xerxes viewd the innumerable Army he had... At Salamys..his huge Armie melted away, and quickly became numerous.

†II. Senses relating to harmony and rhythm.

5. Measured, rhythmic, harmonious. Also in extended use. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective]

numbrousa1586

numerous1589

rhythmical1589

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

numerical1749

rhythmal1812

rhythmopoetic1908

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion

mensuralc1570

numerous1589

numeral1610

measurable1614

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

mensurable1776

measured1782

lilting1800

rhythmic-melodic1854

rhythmized1880

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 The vtterance in prose is..nothing numerous, nor contriued into measures.

1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly in Wks. (1878) II. 23 Or else would offer in Homerean fire, An heccatombe of numerous-plaints therefore.

1613 T. Campion Descr. Lords Maske in Relation Royall Entertainm. sig. D2 Their numerous feet May aptly in iust measures meet.

1648 G. Daniel Eclog. v. 107 Jonson's numerous Soule (Now great as Pindar's) might these Gests enroll.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 150 Such prompt eloquence Flowd from thir lips, in Prose or numerous Verse.

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power & Harmony Prosaic Numbers 4 Men grew excessively fond of the numerous Stile, and readily sacrificed the Strength and Energy of their Discourse to the Harmony and Cadence of their Language.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 207 Harris: In my opinion, the chief excellence of our language is numerous prose.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vi. 375 Blank verse..falling occasionally almost into numerous prose.

B. pron.

A large number of.Not uncommon in colloquial usage, but rare in formal written English.

ΚΠ

1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. ii, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 46/2 Mr. Mick..brought numerous of his comrades with him.

1968 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. x17/1 Blunted the awareness of numerous of its inhabitants to the historical significance of many of its buildings.

1995 Queensland Parl. Deb. 17 Oct. 379/2 An additional struggle that these carers I have named, and numerous of their colleagues, are enduring.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	numerous
释义	numerousadj.pron. Brit. /ˈnjuːm(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈn(j)um(ə)rəs/ Forms: late Middle English– numerous, 1500s numerouse, 1700s num'rous (poetic). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin numerōsus. Etymology: < classical Latin numerōsus (in senses A. 1, A. 2, A. 3, and A. 5), in post-classical Latin also in sense A. 4 (5th cent.) < numerus number n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Italian numeroso (c1340), Spanish numeroso (1495), Portuguese numeroso (1589), Middle French, French †numereux (mid 16th cent.). Compare numerose adj. and also numberous adj. A. adj. I. Senses relating to number. 1. a. Consisting of many individuals. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous so manyc888 thickc893 muchc1225 rifec1275 stourc1275 unridec1300 copiousc1384 plentya1400 rivedc1400 numerable?a1425 numerous?a1475 many a several1543 rank1545 numberous1566 huge1570 multuous1586 multeous1589 numberful1594 numberable1596 numbery1606 numbersomea1617 multitudinousa1631 sand-like1630 voluminous1650 several1712 smart1750 powerful1800 multitudinarious1810 multitudinary1838 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > of individuals, people mickleeOE numerous?a1475 strong1533 populous1548 multitudinous1603 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 49 (MED) Hit is to be holden that Asia is moste in quantite, Europa lesse in quantite, but egalle in the numerous generosite [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. noumbre; L. numerosa generositate] of peple. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest iii. 106 If that at anie time hir [sc. the Tiger's] broode or litter (which is numerouse or many) be stolen away in hir absence [etc.]. 1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. H5 In vaine had Philip with a numerous hoast From Amiens marched. 1658 in W. Cramond Extracts Rec. Synod of Moray (1906) 126 Who has a numerous family. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 675 Thither wing'd with speed A numerous Brigad hasten'd. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 543 A Cyprian Lord..with a num'rous Issue blest. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 210 Johnson: Garrick had under him a numerous body of people. 1797 Earl of Malmesbury in Diaries & Corr. (1844) III. 596 There is a numerous and safe army. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 297 That very numerous class who are left without instruction in their childhood. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 595 The commoners who had been summoned..formed a numerous assembly. 1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 127 Under the New Empire the votaries of Rā formed a numerous and powerful body. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xvi. 240 Germanicus made a forced march, defeated the besieging force, which was not numerous..and rescued Segestes. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 170 We all bedded down on mats on the long verandah of the headman's house with his numerous family. b. Comprising many separate items or examples; plentiful, abundant, copious.Quot. c1586 in N.E.D. shows numbrous. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1638) 99 Two that have horns, that while they butting stand, Strike from their feet a cloud of numerous sand. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 60 It abounds with Inhabitants... So numerous in Islands, as they are scarce numerable. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlix. 398 This is a numerous Herb. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 88. ⁋1 I have contracted a numerous Acquaintance among the best Sort of People. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 33 The free use of a numerous and learned library. 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 416 In the colonies.., the evil is, if possible, still more numerous. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 36 Now behold the fair inhabitants..from numerous business turn. 1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 125 That testy and perplexed look that comes of numerous business and many interruptions. 1942 G. von Hirschheydt Let. 4 Mar. in N.Y. Rev. Bks. (1997) 20 Nov. 41/1 Hyperbrachycephaly is rare among the Polish Leichenmaterial [i.e. corpse-material], Brachycephaly is more frequent, Mesocephaly and Dolichocephaly very numerous. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands ii. 29 An alien bird that has escaped into the forest..is Lady Amherst's pheasant which is now quite numerous. 1995 Guardian 5 Dec. i. 12/7 Less numerous and not found on every bridge is another member of the Asplenium group. †c. Composed of many parts; extensive. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale largea1400 ample1437 farc1475 diffused?1570 spacious1589 extensive1605 wholesale1642 diffuse1644 extense1644 voluminousa1652 amplivagant1656 extentive1658 numerousa1661 extended1700 amplivagous1731 far-reaching1824 Homeric1841 large-scale1856 wholescale1910 wide-scale1925 big-scale1930 macroscopic1931 broadscale1958 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 116 So numerous is the Church with its Appendences..that he can accommodate One Clergy-man, of all Dignities and Degrees..in severall Chapells or Vestries by themselves. †d. Deriving from a multitude. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > involving multitude multitudinous1656 numerous1832 1832 L. Hunt Poems 207 With thousand tiny hushings, like a swarm of atom bees..Or noise of numerous bliss from distant sphere. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 218 How long has existed that numerous voice which we designate as ‘Public Opinion’? 2. a. Containing or including many individuals; crowded, populous. Also with of. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > containing many individuals numerous?1609 ?1609 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads To Rdr. sig. A3 In this Porch to his numerous Phane, Heare auncient Oracles speake. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 61 Though every Tribe was very numerous of Inhabitants that lived in the City. 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 149 A Colony thrust out of the fruitful Loyns of some numerous Country. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 140 Both Universities are already sufficiently numerous. 1831 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VI. 214 The dinner.., from being so numerous, had all the ease of a table d'hôte. 1959 J. Wood Krutch Human Nature & Human Condition i. 18 It may well be that any nation not as numerous as it is physically possible for it to become is doomed to conquest by one or other of those bursting at the seams. †b. Copious, liberal. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective] custyeOE room-handeda1200 largea1225 free?c1225 plenteousc1350 bounteousc1374 liberalc1384 free-hearteda1398 ungnedea1400 royalc1405 opena1425 plentifula1475 profuse?a1475 ungrighta1475 lavishc1475 almifluent1477 prodigous1477 frank1484 bountiful1508 largifluent?a1525 munificent1565 magnificent1577 largeous1583 munifical1583 magnifical1586 free-handed1592 frolic1593 open-handed1593 magnific?1594 prodigal1595 goodwillya1598 communicativea1602 real1602 prodig1605 unniggard1605 generous1615 open-hearteda1617 large-handeda1628 unniggardly1628 fluent1633 profusive1638 numerous1655 largifical1656 insordid1660 unsparing1667 dispensive1677 expensive1678 wasteful1701 flush1703 unboundeda1704 genteel1741 munific1745 magnifique1751 ungrudginga1774 unstinting1845 brickish1860 flaithulach1876 princely1889 outgiving1896 sharing1922 two-handed1929 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 152 He delighted more to be numerous with many then ponderous with select quotations. 3. a. Modifying a plural noun: many; great in number.Now the principal sense. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] feleOE felefoldc1000 manifoldOE unfewc1175 mucha1225 many one?a1300 greata1325 manyc1450 numerous1622 maint1706 right smart1825 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. E^v To be parted in their numerous shares. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 23 July (1972) VII. 214 Contriving presses to put my books up in; they now growing numerous. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 8. 48 Letters from Correspondents begin to be very numerous. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 168 Deem life a blessing with its num'rous woes. 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 449 They are greatly more numerous, and much more frequented. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxv. 363 These shafts..are very numerous in the Unteraar glacier. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables vii. 73 As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all, so I will only mention the two most important. 1952 E. Templeton Island of Desire i. iv. 32 His reputation was enormous... Numerous books had been written about him. 1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 97 Numerous exhibitions organized by Edmund Stadler..helped to rekindle interest in Appia. b. too numerous to mention: very many, countless, innumerable. ΚΠ 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple iii. v. 68 A variety of different articles, too numerous to mention. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 39 Corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention. 1915 T. F. A. Smith Soul of Germany 33 The author's opinions on German schools are based upon personal visits to cities and schools too numerous to mention. 1992 A. Pannett Princ. Hotel & Catering Law (ed. 3) 1 The ways in which the caterer is affected by the law are too numerous to mention. †4. That can be numbered; countable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable numbrablea1382 numberablea1500 computativea1538 measurable1565 numerable1570 countable1581 accountable1589 computable1610 numerous1638 reckonable1657 summable1718 calculable1742 enumerable1889 scorable1964 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 160 Xerxes viewd the innumerable Army he had... At Salamys..his huge Armie melted away, and quickly became numerous. †II. Senses relating to harmony and rhythm. 5. Measured, rhythmic, harmonious. Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] numbrousa1586 numerous1589 rhythmical1589 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 numerical1749 rhythmal1812 rhythmopoetic1908 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion mensuralc1570 numerous1589 numeral1610 measurable1614 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 mensurable1776 measured1782 lilting1800 rhythmic-melodic1854 rhythmized1880 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 The vtterance in prose is..nothing numerous, nor contriued into measures. 1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly in Wks. (1878) II. 23 Or else would offer in Homerean fire, An heccatombe of numerous-plaints therefore. 1613 T. Campion Descr. Lords Maske in Relation Royall Entertainm. sig. D2 Their numerous feet May aptly in iust measures meet. 1648 G. Daniel Eclog. v. 107 Jonson's numerous Soule (Now great as Pindar's) might these Gests enroll. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 150 Such prompt eloquence Flowd from thir lips, in Prose or numerous Verse. View more context for this quotation 1749 J. Mason Ess. Power & Harmony Prosaic Numbers 4 Men grew excessively fond of the numerous Stile, and readily sacrificed the Strength and Energy of their Discourse to the Harmony and Cadence of their Language. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 207 Harris: In my opinion, the chief excellence of our language is numerous prose. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vi. 375 Blank verse..falling occasionally almost into numerous prose. B. pron. A large number of.Not uncommon in colloquial usage, but rare in formal written English. ΚΠ 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. ii, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 46/2 Mr. Mick..brought numerous of his comrades with him. 1968 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. x17/1 Blunted the awareness of numerous of its inhabitants to the historical significance of many of its buildings. 1995 Queensland Parl. Deb. 17 Oct. 379/2 An additional struggle that these carers I have named, and numerous of their colleagues, are enduring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.pron.?a1475
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