enormis

ē-normis, e, adj. [norma], out of rule (post-Aug.).

I.

Irregular, unusual:

toga,

Quint. 11, 3, 139:

vici (with huc et illuc flexi),

Tac. A. 15, 38.—Far more freq.,

II.

Immoderate, immense, enormous (cf.:

immensus, immodicus, summus, maximus, effusus): enormes sunt (umbrae) cerasis,

Plin. 17, 12, 17, § 88:

spatium (with immensum),

Tac. Agr. 10; cf.

hastae (with immensa scuta),

id. A. 2, 14:

gladii (opp. parva scuta),

id. Agr. 36:

Colossi,

Stat. S. 1, 3, 51; cf.

corpus,

Suet. Calig. 50:

proceritas,

id. Vitell. 17:

uniones,

Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 115 et saep.:

senecta,

i. e. very great, App. 9, p. 232; Sen. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 10:

loquacitas,

Petr. 2, 7; cf. Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 6.— Comp.:

prologus enormior quam fabula,

longer, Spart. Ael. Ver. 1 fin.—Adv.: ēnor-mĭter (acc. to I.), irregularly, Sen. Q. N. 1, 7; Plin. 36, 10, 15, § 17; 37, 6, 23, § 89; Veg. Vet. 2, 8, 2; 2, 28, 10; 1, 36; 56 Bip.— Sup. of the adj. and comp. and sup. of the adv. appear not to occur.