1excessive, inordinate:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Si li flux desmesurés vient de habundance des humors [...]
i 242
♦
immoderate, uncontrolled, wild (person, emotion):
(
1174-75;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Mielz valt engin de guerre sur gent desmesurez
147
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Vus este[s] deceue si sovent, ore par demesuré dolur, ore par veyne leesse
10.34
(
s.xiii3/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
ire est une desmesuré tempeste de quer
208vb
(
s.xiv1
)
q’il ne soit desmesurez en despendre
18
1immoderate person, wild person:
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
robeur, larrun, orguillus, irus, desué
(l. desvé) , desmesuré
i 15
(
c.1230;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Tant sunt de diable encumbré Li chatis, li desmesuré
8014
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desmesuré (1174-75)