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ugglesome, a. Now rare.|ˈʌg(ə)lsʌm|
Also 6–7 vgle-; 9 ogglesome. β. 6–7 ouglesome.
[app. f. prec. + -some.]
Fearful, horrible, gruesome.
α1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iii. (1577) Q viij, Some are compelled by their fathers to take olde men ful of diseases vglesome and wayward. Ibid. iv. X iij b, A face darke, vglesome, vnpleasaunt, and to be shunned for yll. 1576Foxe A. & M. (ed. 3) 1904/2 When I beholde the amiable countenance of Christ..y⊇ vglesome [1563 vgsome] face of death doth not greatly trouble me. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 188 They shal be punished in fire and brimstone amongest the terrible Company of vgglesome Deuills. 1591― Christal Glasse C ij b, As though she saw some filthie vgglesome, and displeasant thing. 1617J. Moore Mappe Mans Mort. i. viii. 58 It shewed..our vglesome shape, most monstrous to beholde.
1855Chambers' Jrnl. 7 July 13 This ‘ugglesome beast’ seldom troubles me, for his dwelling is in some secluded cleft of the stone. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Nov., That weird and ogglesome beast the Wangdoodlum.
β1575T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 260 In the wilde wildernes, which being burnt vp with the heat of the Sunne, yeldeth an ouglesome habitation to the Monkes. 1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 69 In the froward he seeth the work of the diuell, whereby they are depraued and made most vile & ouglesome. 1622S. Ward Life of Faith in Death (1627) 26 When I behold the ouglesome face of death, I am afrayd, but when I consider Christs amiable Countenance, I take heart againe. [Cf. quot. 1576 above.] |