1. = INESTIMABLE a. I.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 172, marg. A learned kyng [is] an vnestimable treasure. Ibid. (1548), Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 188 b. Beyng enkiendled with the vnestimable fyer of charytee & loue towardes mankynd.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades, 210/1. Some by warre haue … vnestimable riches with verie little losse or no dammage at all.
1628. trans. Mathieu’s Powerfull Favorite, 102. Here all the world laments the vnestimable losse of the bookes of Cornelius Tacitus.
2. = INESTIMABLE a. 3.
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 694. There can hardly be a higher evincement how unestimable most Worldly things deserve to be.
c. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1692), 41. None are so unestimable … as those fickle-fancy’d men, whose friendships will hold no longer then Pliny’s peaches.
