immensurable, a.
(ɪˈmɛnsjʊərəb(ə)l, -ʃər-)
[a. F. immensurable (15th c. in Godef.), or ad. late L. immensūrābilis (5th c.), f. im- (im-2) + mensū rābilis mensurable.]
Immeasurable.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 426 In meit and drink, and sleip also wes he Immensurabill and out of temperance. 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 18 Exorbitant desire..illimitlesse, and immensurable. 1714 Derham Astro-Theol. i. iii. (1715) 23 What an immensurable space is the Firmament. 1807 F. Buchanan Journ. Mysore III. 469 The rank of the different casts..the immensurable superiority of the Brahmans above the rest of mankind. |
Hence immensuraˈbility, iˈmmensurableness, immensurable quality or condition.
| 1675 Sterry Freedom Will 41 We must attribute this immenseness, or immensurableness to Him. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Immensurability, a being uncapable to be measured. |