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Portentous

PORTENT'OUS, a. [L. portentosus.] Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous. 1. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense. No beast of more portentous size,\par...

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PORTENT'OUS, a. [L. portentosus.] Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous.

1. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense.

No beast of more portentous size,\par in the Hercynian forest lies.

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