nimious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nimious (comparative more nimious, superlative most nimious)
- (Scotland, law, obsolete) Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; vexatious.
- Synonyms: onerous, unrestrained; see also Thesaurus:burdensome, Thesaurus:excessive
- 1851, Alexander MacNeel-Caird, “Decisions in the Supreme Court fully reported”, in The Poor-Law Manual for Scotland, 6th edition, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 419:
- But instead of that, they raised this prejudicial question, and upon that ensues a litigation, the most nimious I ever saw, even on the part of a corporate body, whose annals generally abound with instances of nimious procedure.
- 1887, “No. 18, Rattray v. White”, in Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in Scotland, volume 3, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 93:
- The remaining grounds are, that the facts proved did not warrant a conviction, and that the proceedings were nimious and oppressive, and I am of the opinion that these are grounds on which this Bill of Suspension cannot be sustained.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nimious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)