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ENORMOUS

Volume 8 · 58 words · 1823 Edition

something excessive or monstrous, especially in bulk.—The word is formed of the privative e, and norma, "rule;" q.d. "void of, or contrary to, rule or measure;" contra normam. In the corrupt ages of Latinity they used innormis and inornis.

In the French jurisprudence, lessio enormis, "enormous damage," is that which exceeds half the value of the thing sold.