a. Sc. and † north. Forms: 4 vndemes, 6 vndemus, -ous, 9 undeemous, -deemis, ondeemas, etc. [ad. ON. údǽmis, gen. of údǽmi (Norw. udøme, MSw. odöme) an unexampled or monstrous thing or deed, f. ú- UN-1 + dǽmi example, instance, related to DEEM v., DOOM sb. The ending has partly been taken as -OUS.] Unexampled, unparalleled, extraordinary, remarkable.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 23235 (Gött.). The fiȝft [pain] es vndemes of dint [Cott. vndemnes dint; Edinb. vndemenes of dint], Þat þa wreches þar sal hint.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot., I. vii. (1541), 6 b/2. Suppone we be vincust (quhilk may nocht succeid but vndemus murdir of ȝow) than 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.].

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 349. Edward … gathiris … ane armie vndemous.

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1808.  Jamieson, s.v., Undeemis … money, a countless sum.

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1871.  W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, x. An ondeemas thing o’ siller.

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  Hence Undeemously adv. Sc.

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1846.  W. Cross, Disruption, xiv. It’s groun just undeemously since we cam’ to Embro.’

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