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Extraordinary on account of ugliness,
viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.

So bad a death argues a monstrous
life.

Shak.

5. Abounding in monsters. [R.]

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide

Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

Milton.

Mon"strous, adv. Exceedingly;
very; very much. "A monstrous thick oil on the top."
Bacon.

And will be monstrous witty on the
poor.

Dryden.

Mon"strous*ly, adv. In a monstrous
manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously
wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love."
Dryden.

Mon"strous*ness, n. The state or
quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary.
Shak.

Mon`stru*os"i*ty (?), n.
Monstrosity. [Obs.] Shak.

Mon"stru*ous (?), a.
Monstrous. [Obs.

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