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  • adjective Obsolete form of gigantic.

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Examples

  • His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantick, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Popeye himself shows up to offer Mason a helpful gloss on a Hebrew passage he is trying to make sense of: "'That is," I am that which I am, "'helpfully translates a somehow nautical-looking Indiv. with gigantick Fore-Arms, and one Eye ever a-Squint from the Smoke of his Pipe."

    Entropology Menand, Louis 1997

  • I wave often in the grey pendulous mosses of the South, or stand in thought under the gigantick branches of the live oak, with all its leaves of laurel, and its heroick gesture.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

  • Amongst the Saints there are some gigantick ones, who continually suffer with patience indispositions of body, of which God takes great care.

    The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

  • 'The rest of the Lay Monks,' he writes, 'seem to be but feeble mortals, in comparison with the gigantick Johnson.'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantick, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • I scrambled to my feet quick as I could, and as I riz up I see right in front on me the gigantick, shameless female Bildad had as good as told me Josiah had been flirtin 'with.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • And I spoze he wuz so full of his great life work aginst that gigantick evil Intemperance, that them ideas had to flow out when the plug of silence wuz removed.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • As I thought of all these things, them lofty towers riz up like gigantick skeleton fingers outstretched mockin'ly.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

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