monstrous
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He noted that the word had the same Latin root as “monster”: monstrum, “to shine forth,” he defined helpfully.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr.
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2017
It is related to demonstrate and to remonstrate, and ultimately comes from the Latin monstrum, an omen portending the will of the gods, which is itself linked to the verb monere, to warn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scaliger, in his poems, terms Virgil "sine labe monstrum."
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
For many consecutive nights I dared not undress myself nor put out the light, lest the moment I lay down some "monstrum horrendum, informfe, ingens" should blast my sight with his hellish aspect!
From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.
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