a. [UN-1 7 b, 5 b.] Incapable of being numbered; innumerable.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter xxxviii. 6. How fa my dayes ere here, and how vnnoumberabil in heuen.

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1382.  Wyclif, Exod. x. 14. A brennynge wynd reride vp locustes, the whiche … seeten in alle the coostis of Egipciens vnnoumbrable.

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c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., lvii. 241 (Harl. MS.). Thorow this pryde bethe vnnumberable peple infecte and dede.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, VI. xi. 53. The flude Lethe … About the quhilk peple vnnomerable … fleis fast.

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1756.  Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.), 144. The unnumberable wind-milns through Holland.

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1774.  trans. Helvetius’ Child of Nature, I. 53. Unnumberable are the unfortunate he has relieved.

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1852.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 173. With starry globes unnumberable, suns, Planets and moons.

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