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  † 1.  Lack of measure; excess. Obs.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 15543. Til vnmesur mismai yow noght.

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c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 303. So wast hath manye expensys and costys … in vnmesure & werkys, bareyn wyth-oute fruyte.

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1598.  Florio, Dismisura, an vnmeasure, out of measure.

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  2.  An improper or illegal measure.

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1820.  Bentham, Lib. Press, Wks. 1843, II. 283/2. The last, though not the least, of all their fears is—lest un-measures, which … have already been taken … for the extinction of all power of controul [etc.].

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