c. 1400. Brut, 316. Men founden vnnumerable multitudes of hem [sc. sparrows] dede in feldes.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 485. He was deseyvid be a fend þat promysid hym to gyff hym … ane vnnumerable porcion of gude.
1536. in Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.), 162. At þe Towr … þer was shott vnnumerable many gonnes.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1593), 186. So winding waies Unnumerable Dædalus within his worke convays.
1611. Cotgr., Innombrable, innumerable, vnnumerable.
Hence † Unnumerableness. Also † Unnumerably adv.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Innumerabilitas, *vnnumerablenesse: passyng all number.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 366/1. *Onnumerably, innumerabiliter.
1611. Cotgr., Innumerablement, innumerably, vnnumerably.
