"nimious" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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        "Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; vexatious."
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        "(Scotland, law, obsolete) Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; vexatious."
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