Portentous

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:08:27

Por*tent"ous (?), a. [L. portentosus.]

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous.

For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak.

Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.

Roscommon.

-- Por*tent"ous*ly, adv. -- Por*tent"ous*ness, n.

Portent	Dissecting Aeschylean and Euripidean Drama vis à vis The Frogs	Aki Kaurismäki	John Adams's 1797 State of the Union Address
acronycal	Doon	Al-Agorii	Omen
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