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Quotation dates: 1501-1596
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Innumerabil(l, a. Also: -abyll, -able, innumirabyll, inumerable, innewmerable. [ME. (1340) and e.m.E. innumerable, L. innumerābilis. Cf. Innowmerabill and Innomerable.] Innumerable, uncountable, numberless, countless. Freq. following the noun. Also absol. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 471.
Ane multitude … innumerabill 1513 Id. Æn. xiii. vi. 221.
Innumerabill … scheip 1533 Gau 4/11.
Siclik thai dremit … innumerabil pouers and vertus a1538 Abell Chron. fol. 112.
Inumerable pepill deit 1528 Lynd. Dreme 590.
Thir … myrthis … , Be arithmatik thay ar innumirabyll 1528 Ib. 1533.
Men, wemen, beistis innumerabill c1552 Id. Mon. 885.
Innumerabill with him thare fell 1572 Bann. Trans. 425.
With innewmerable sic lyke sentences a1578 Pitsc. I. 56/21.
Innumerabill slaughteris war maid … 1591-2 Rob Stene 4.
With stanis and perle innvmerable 1596 Dalr. I. 190/8.
The benefites innumerable … quhilkes … he had receuit
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