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English
Etymology
From nimious + -ly.
Adverb
nimiously (comparative more nimiously, superlative most nimiously)
- (obsolete) Excessively; extravagantly; inordinate.
1854, Alexander Murray Dunlop, “Of Relief and Recourse” (chapter IV), in The Law of Scotland Regarding the Poor, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 68:94. An offer to take an applicant for relief into a poors' house is in general a sufficient offer of relief, though the Court would probably exercise a control if made nimiously ;
1873, James Paterson, “The Laws of Angling” (chapter V), in A Treatise on the Fishery Laws of the United Kingdom, , 2nd edition, London: Shaw and Sons, page 228:In such a case the salmon fisher has no right to complain of the trout fisher (so far as angling is concerned), nor the trout fisher of the salmon fisher for fishing at any particular point, except where one purposely acts, not in the exercise of his legal right, but in order to obstruct his neighbour in the exercise of his ; or as it is technically called in Scotland, except he acts nimiously.
1880, Mark Napier, The Lennox of Auld. An Epistolary Review of "The Lennox, by William Fraser", Edinburgh: David Douglas, page 77:Indeed such a settlement was inevitable from the first ; and had it not been for the long endurance of the anxiously fortified liferent possession bestowed (no doubt nimiously) by James II.