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The great impoſtume of the realme vvas dravvne / Euen to a head: the multitudinous ſpavvne / VVas the corruption, vvhich did make it ſvvell / VVith hop'd ſedition (the burnt ſeed of hell.)
There vvas alſo another parting ſpeach, vvhich vvas to haue been preſented in the perſon of a youth, and accompanied vvith diuerſe Gentlemens yonger ſonnes of the Countrey, but by reaſon of the Multitudinous preſſe, vvas alſo hindred.
1629 April (date delivered), John Donne, “Sermon XXVIII. Preached to the King , at the Court in April, 1629.”, in Fifty Sermons, Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, The Second Volume, London: Ja. Flesher for M F J Marriot, and R Royston, published 1649, →OCLC, page 242:
he foundation of all, the Trinity, undermined by thoſe numerous, thoſe multitudinous Anthills of Socinians, that overflovv ſome parts of the Chriſtian vvorld, and multiply every vvhere.
1658, P H, “That the Three Estates of Every Kingdom whereof Calvin Speaks, have No Authority either to Regulate the Power, or Controll the Actions of the Soveraign Prince”, in The Stumbling-block of Disobedience and Rebellion, Cunningly Laid by Calvin in the Subjects Way, Discovered, Censured, and Removed, London: E Cotes for Henry Seile, →OCLC, page 275:
For certainly it is as true in making our approaches and petitions to our Lord the king, as in the pouring out of our prayers and ſupplications to the Lord our God: the more multitudinous and united the Petitioners are, the more like to ſpeed.
a.1663 (date written), P Heylyn, “Lib I. Extending from the Time of His Birth, till His Being Made Bishop of St. Davids.”, in Cyprianus Anglicus: Or, The History of the Life and Death, of the Most Reverend and Renowned Prelate William by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,, London: E Cotes for A Seile, published 1668, →OCLC, part I (Octob. 7. 1573. – August 6. 1633.), page 70:
The City at that time much peſtered vvith the Puritan Faction, vvhich vvas grovvn multitudinous and ſtrong by reaſon of the ſmall abode vvhich the Dean and Prebendaries made amongſt them, the dull connivance of their Biſhop, and the remiſs Government of their Metropolitan,
1768 (first performance), Samuel Foote, edited by Colman, The Devil upon Two Sticks; a Comedy,, London: T. Sherlock, for T Cadell,, published 1778, →OCLC, Act I, page 16:
Inv. s your family pretty large and extenſive? / Devil. Multitudinous as the ſands on the beach, or the moats in a ſun-beam: Hovv the deuce elſe do you think vve could do all the buſineſs belovv?
In the multitudinous whimseys of a disabled mind and body, the thick-coming fancies often occur to me that the events which affect my life and adventures are specially shaped to disappoint my purposes.
An extract from Adams’ diary.
1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “History of Theological Literature in Europe from 1520 to 1550”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume I, London: John Murray,, →OCLC, paragraph 35, page 524:
The schism of the Lutheran and Helvetic protestants did injury enough to their cause; a more multitudinous brood of sectaries would, in the temper of those times, have been such a disgrace as it could not have overcome.
Whichever way one looked one's view was shut in by the multitudinous ranks of trees, and the tangled bushes and creepers that struggled round their bases like the sea round the piles of a pier.
n a State ſo multitudinous, where ſo many flocks of people muſt be fed, it is impoſſible to haue ſome Trades to ſtand, if they ſhould not Lye.
1625, Peter Heylin, Mikrokosmos: A Little Description of the Great World, Augmented and revised, Oxford, “The Grecian Iles,” p. 424,
he feared no enemies but the Sea and the Earth; the one yeelding no safe harbour for such a Navie; the other not yeelding sufficient sustenance for so multitudinous an Armie.
1820 February 23, Leigh Hunt, “Ronald of the Perfect Hand”, in The Indicator, volume I, number XX, London: Joseph Appleyard,, published 1820, →OCLC, page 155:
It was the rocks of an isle beyond Inistore, which made that multitudinous roaring of the wind.
1837, L E L, “An Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Henry Colburn,, →OCLC, page 211:
Ethel knew that further remonstrance was useless; and, therefore, quietly offered her services to arrange the multitudinous wardrobe which was being unpacked.
The pavement has grass enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous resort of business.
1879 August 26 (date written), Walt Whitman, “ Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip.”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co.,, published 1882–1883, →OCLC, page 138:
o getting off aside, resting in an arm-chair and looking up a long while at the grand high roof with its graceful and multitudinous work of iron rods, angles, gray colors, plays of light and shade, receding into dim outlines— —I abandon'd myself for over an hour.
From the whole extent of the invisible vale came a multitudinous intonation; it forced upon their fancy that a great city lay below them, and that the murmur was the vociferation of its populace.
When Irma returned to her guests she paused before she opened the doors of the salon, for a loud and confused noise came from within. It was of a kind that she had never heard before, so happy it was, so multitudinous, so abandoned—the sound of voices at play.
VVill all great Neptunes ocean vvaſh this blood / Cleane from my Hand? no: this my Hand vvill rather / The multitudinous Seas incarnardine, / Making the Greene one, Red.
egard this Earth / Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou / Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise, / And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, / With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.
1919, Max Beerbohm, “A. V. Laider”, in Seven Men, London: William Heinemann, page 142:
In multitudinous London the memory of A. V. Laider and his trouble had soon passed from my mind.
that prefer / A noble life before a long, and vviſh / To jump a body vvith a dangerous phyſic / That's ſure of death vvithout it, at once pluck out / The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick / The ſvveet vvhich is their poiſon