Middle English Dictionary Entry
immoderāt(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | immoderāt(e adj. Also (error) inmorderate. |
| Etymology | L immoderātus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of actions, appetites, bodily processes: lacking moderation, inordinate; (b) excessive, extreme; of the weather: extreme.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)49b/a : Þese yueles..þe þrote soffreþ..as whelkes, swellynge, ynmoderat þurst, hoosnes of voys.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)261b/b : Immoderat and ofte gendrynge is cause of þe vndoynge of þe body.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)278a/b : Houndes haueþ contynual bolysme, þat is, immoderate appetit.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)107a/b : Euer[y] inmoderate qualite beyng longe in a member febleþ þe acte of it.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)180b/a : Euerye þing þat is inmoderate moste be reduced to moderacioun be þing þat is contrarie to hym.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)939 : In his departyng whoo is inmoderat, This to seyn..nat mesurable In his Rychesse but disordinat, Is Callyd prodigus.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)4495 : Auarice is a loue inmoderat, Richesses temporel for to purchace.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)160b/a : Immoderate heete greueþ fysshe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)251a/a : Whete þat springeþ in immoderate and vnesy weder And tyme is vnperfite.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.196 : Athelbold..reigned..In greate sikenesse and pain inmorderate.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.312 : He toke greate golde immoderate Of kyng Edwarde.