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English
Etymology
From Latin nimius.
Adjective
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.
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