单词 | monstre |
释义 | † monstren. Obsolete. = monstrance n.2 ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > monstrance > [noun] monstrance1434 mustenaunce1479 monstrec1480 monstrant1509 monstrate1524 monstral1532 observator1560 remonstrance1656 ostensorio1722 ostensorium1758 ostensory1787 ostensor1804 ostensoir1833 c1480 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) p. lxi The crose of the monestere. 1498–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 233 Item, for mendyng of the monstyr for the Sacrament. 1519 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 8 A monstre of siluer and gilt to bear in the Sacrament on Corpus Christi day. 1548 in Archaeologia (1869) 62 89 Item a monster of silver and gilt. c1559 in Innes Rev. (1965) 16 128 Winsister hes the grit cors in his keiping, the grit monstour, the meikill eucharist with the litill eucharist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). monstreadj. Now rare. = monster adj. 1.Noted by N.E.D. as common esp. in journalism: see quot. 1908. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 1840 R. H. Barham ‘Monstre’ Balloon in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 297 Three cheers for the ‘monstre’ Balloon. 1862 Littell's Living Age 4 Jan. 6/2 A perfect monstre concert of sleigh-bells and merry voices ringing crisp and clear through the frozen woods. 1893 F. Peel Spen Valley 352 He..helped..to organise the monstre gathering on Peep Green. 1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) Monstre... A frequent journalistic substitute for Monster adj., esp. as applied to meetings, ‘demonstrations’, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1480adj.1840 |
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