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monstrously, adv.|ˈmɒnstrəslɪ|
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†1. In the manner of a monster; with congenital malformation. Obs.
1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 741/2 A man myght haue seene frere Barns when he came laste into the lande..and yet myght happely..haue taken him for a monstre, he had so monstrouslye dressed himself because he would be wondred on. 1604T. Wright Passions i. x. 44, I might declare, what Passions they are subiect vnto, whom Nature monstrously hath signed.
2.
†a. In an unnatural or extraordinary manner.
1555Eden Decades To Rdr. (Arb.) 53 Vicious behauoures which monstrously deforme the myndes of men. 1588J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 17 My flesh trembleth to heare you speake so monstrously. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 10 They melted down their stolen ear-rings into a calf, and monstrously cryed out: These are thy gods O Israel! that brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 330/1 Virtues..of the same nature as those which the Basilians [sic] attributed to their monstrously cut stones.
b. To a monstrous degree; in later use often as a mere intensive, ‘hugely’, ‘vastly’.
a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 301 We are monstrously in the fault. 1709Steele Tatler No. 48 ⁋1 Heels to his Shoes so monstrously high, that he had three or four Times fallen down, had he not [etc.]. 1782F. Burney Cecilia i. v, She had been..so monstrously engaged, I could never find her at home. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. ii, In life, surely man is not always as monstrously busy as he appears to be in novels and romances. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. ii, In monstrously short time the pursuing skiff showed round the corner. 1904‘Anthony Hope’ Double Harness i. 4 She's monstrously fat. |