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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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MON'STROUS, a. [L. monstrosus.] Unnatural in form; out of the common course of nature; as a monstrous birth or production.
MON'STROUS, adv. Exceedingly; very much; as monstrous hard; monstrous thick.
Marvelous; strange.
[Obs.] Having the qualities of a monster;
deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a
monstrous birth.
Locke.
He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love . . . is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor. Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder,
dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color,
sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a
monstrous story.
Extraordinary on account of ugliness,
viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak. Abounding in monsters.
[R.]
Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Exceedingly;
very; very much.
"A monstrous thick oil on the top."
Bacon.
And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryden. | ||||||||