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† stuˈpendious, a. Obs.
[irreg. f. L. stupend-us (see stupendous), after adjs. in -ious; cf. tremendious, vulgar form of tremendous.]
Stupendous.
Our numerous instances show that this was the accepted form until the latter part of the 17th c., when the correct stupendous began to be used.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. 133 Yet in Ierland is stupendyous thynges; for there is neyther Pyes nor venymus wormes. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. Apol. Poetrie ⁋ij b, As witnes the huge Theaters, and Amphitheaters, monuments of stupendious charge. 1611Coryat Crudities 284 A most stupendious summe of money. 1667Milton P.L. x. 351 At sight Of that stupendious Bridge his joy encreas'd. 1712Steele Spect. No. 472 ⁋7 That stupendious Machine [the Eye]. 1768Boswell Corsica i. (ed. 2) 29 Craggy cliffs of so stupendious a height, that [etc.]. a1800Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 55 On the other hand, they [sc. Londoners] say stupendious, for stupendous.
Hence † stuˈpendiously adv., stuˈpendiousness.
1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 198 Can any elected persons heart be found so stupendiously obdurate, as to withstand this omnipotent working. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. v. 9 The stupendiousness of the Venetian liberty. 1662H. More Enthus. Tri. 14 There may be such a due dash of Sanguine in the Melancholy, that the Complexion may prove stupendiously [ed. 1712 stupendously] enravishing. 1676Doctrine of Devils 54 This is..an Axiomatical Truth among the Doctors of Demonology, That a Devil or Witch can, for stupendiousness of the work do as much as ever Christ did. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 113 The Jewes..remained so stupendiously incredulous, that they putt him to death for an imposter. |