horrendum

Deo futuro judicio, de damnatione horrendum crepunt, et amaras illas potationes in ore semper habent, ut multos inde in desperationem cogant.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Illa in horrendum furorum incidit, ob Venerem cohibitam ut omnium eam invisentium congressum, voce, vultu, gestu expeteret, et quum non consentirent, molossos

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Et horrendum sane dictu, quantum apud nos patrum memoria, scelus detestandum hoc saevierit!

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Sacrorum gent.descript. non bene meritos solum, sed et tyrannos pro diis colunt, qui genus humanum horrendum in modum portentosa immanitate divexarunt, &c. foedas meretrices,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He is the monstrum horrendum, an unprincipled man of genius.

The Purloined Letter 2006

But not anywhere doth he more industriously hoist up and spread the sails of his luxuriant eloquence than when he aims to render the opinion of his adversaries to be “monstrum horrendum, informe ingens, cui lumen ademptum,” — a dark, dismal, uncomfortable, fruitless, death-procuring doctrine, such as it is marvellous that ever any poor soul should embrace or choose for a companion or guide in its pilgrimage towards heaven.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

[3] _Monstrum et horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.

The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons James Fairfax McLaughlin

I dared not undress myself nor put out the light, lest the moment I lay down some _ "monstrum horrendum, informfe, ingens" _ should blast my sight with his hellish aspect!

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

Æneas had met with roast potatoes and stout during his celebrated voyage across the Styx to the infernal regions, and listened to songs and glees in place of the multitude of condemned souls, "horrendum stridens," we wager that he would have been in no very great hurry to return.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

He is that _monstrum horrendum_, an unprincipled man of genius.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill