mon strati on (mons trash on)

[ Montan is tic Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide, Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton , Lycidas, 1. 158. = Syn. 1. Abnormal.-2. Prodigious, vast, colo al, stupendous.-3. Wicked , Atrocious , etc. (see atrocious ). monstrous (mon's trus), adv . [ mon strous difficult. [Now vulgar or colloquial.] An I may hide my face, let me play This by too: I'll speak in a monstrous little voice. Shak ., M. N. D., i. 2. 54. Monstrous angry now, grievously angry. You are angry, Fletcher, Wild goose Chase, iii. 1. It is such monstrous rainy weather that there is no doing with it. Swift , Journal to Stella, x. tus, show, point out, indicate, ordain, indict, monstrously (mon's trus-li), adv. In a mon also advise: see monster, v.] A showing; demonstration; proof. The blood burst incontinent out of the nose of the dead king at the comming of his sonne, geuing thereby as a certaine mon str a cion howe he was the author of his death. Grafton, Hen. II., an. 33. mon str at or (mon's tra-tor), n. [ IMG:content-0912.png:[blocks in formation] strous manner. (a) In a manner out of the common order of nature; hence, shockingly; hideously; horribly: as, a man monstrously wicked. They melted down their stoln ear-rings into a calf, and monstrously cryed out: These are thy gods, O Israel! Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., i. 2. (b) Exceedingly; inordinately; enormously. These truths with his example you disprove, Who with his wife is monstrously in love. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vi. monstrousne (mon's trus-nes), n. The state or quality of being monstrous, in any sense of that word; especially, enormity; exceeding wickedne . The state lin e e of the buildinges and the monstrousene e of the sepulchres. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 29. O, see the monstrousne of man When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! Shak ., T. of A., iii. 2. 79. strifer, monster-bearing, monstrum, a monmonstruosityt, monstruoust, etc. Obsolete IMG:content-0913.png:[graphic] ster, + ferre = E. bear1.] Producing mon sters. This mon strife rouse empire of women is most detestable and damnable. Knox , First Blast, Pref., p. 5. monstrosity (mon-stros'i-ti), n.; pl. monstrosi ties (-tiz). (-tiz). [Also formerly mo monstruosity; monstruosité = Sp. monstruosidad = Pg. mon struosidade = It. mostruosità, most rosità, This is the monstruosity in love, lady - that the will is infinite, and the execution confined. Shak . , T. and C., iii. 2. 87. In either case, it is a deviation from the normal type, and, as such, is analogous to the monstrosities , both of animals and of vegetables. Buckle , Civilization, II. vi. ( Latham .) At long intervals of time, out of millions of individuals reared in the same country and fed on nearly the same food, deviations of structure so strongly pronounced as to deserve to be called monstrosities arise; but monstrosities cannot be separated by any distinct line from slighter variations. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 23. forms of monstrosity, etc. Montacuta (mon-ta-kū'tä), n. [NL. (Turton, 1819), named after George Montagu, an English naturalist (died 1815); later also Montagua.] A genus of bivalve mollusks referred either to the family Kelliidæ or to the family Erycinida, or made type of the Montacutida. The shell is oblique, with the cartilage in a pit between two strong teeth, and there is no anterior tube. M. ferruginea is a small shell found on the northern coast of Europe.