See prodigious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "[1707], [Colley] Cibber, The Double Gallant: Or, The Sick Lady’s Cure. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, […]; and sold by John Phillips, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [i], page 23:",
"text": "VVhat am I? Old! or a Monſter! Is it ſo prodigious, that a Man ſhou'd like me?",
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"ref": "1730, [Henry Fielding], Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in His Own Trap. A Comedy. […], London: […] J. Wat[t]s, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 33:",
"text": "Prodigious! […] VVhat in the Name of VVonder hath brought you to England?",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1733, “an Eminent Hand” [pseudonym; Alexander Pope], The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satyr. […], London: […] John Wil[f]ord, […], →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "Prodigious! hovv the Things Proteſt, Proteſt: / Peace, Fools! or Gonſon vvill for Papiſts ſeize you, / If once he catch you at your Jeſu! Jeſu!",
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"ref": "1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Francolin and the Tortoises. [Night 927.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume IX, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 125:",
"text": "'[T]is a marvel of marvels that this man should be a mighty King and ready for war, after his slaughter of all the wise men of his kingdom and his counsellors and the captains of his host and that his realm should be populous and prosper after this and there should issue therefrom this prodigious power!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1930, André Gide, “Back Again”, in Dorothy Bussy, transl., Travels in the Congo […], red seal edition, New York, N.Y.: Modern Age Books, published 1937, →OCLC, part 2 (Back from the Chad), page 194:",
"text": "A prodigious quantity of insects of all sorts (but no mosquitoes) assailed us at our evening meal.",
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}
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{
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"text": "(extent, quantity):"
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"text": "(size):"
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"text": "(size):"
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"ref": "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XII.] Of Certain Thornes and Fig-trees of India.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 360:",
"text": "[T]he figges […] are a fruit for a king, anſvverable to the mightie, huge, and prodigious tree that beareth it.",
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"ref": "a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cornwall”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 199:",
"text": "This Urſula is ſaid to have carried over out of Britain, eleven thouſand Maids of prime quality, beſides threeſcore thouſand of meaner rank, (ſeventy one thouſand in all, a prodigious number,) to be married to ſo many in little Britain in France. Prepoſterous in my mind, to proffer themſelves, and it had argued more modeſty if their Husbands had fetcht them hence.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How John Look’d Over His Attorney’s Bill”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 20:",
"text": "VVHEN John firſt brought out the Bills, the Surprize of all the Family vvas unexpreſſible, at the prodigious Dimenſions of them; […]",
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"ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 188:",
"text": "[I]t [a penis] vvas poſitively of ſo tremendous a ſize, […] you might have troll'd dice ſecurely along the broad back of the body of it: the length of it too vvas prodigious; […]",
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"ref": "1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture I. Introductory.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, →OCLC, page 2:",
"text": "[T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.",
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"word": "prodigios"
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"word": "vast"
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},
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"word": "грома́дный"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H4, recto:",
"text": "[T]he blots of natures hand / Shall not in their iſſue ſtand. / Neuer mole, hare-lippe, nor ſcarre, / Nor marke prodigious, ſuch as are / Deſpiſed in natiuitie, / Shall vpon their children be.",
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"ref": "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.] The Power of the Sunne, and why the Sea is Salt.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 44:",
"text": "[T]here happened a prodigious token to Denis tyrant of Sicilie [i.e., Dionysius I of Syracuse], vvhen hee vvas expelled and depoſed from that mightie ſtate of his, and this it vvas; The ſea vvater vvithin one day in the haven grevv to be freſh and ſvveet.",
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},
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},
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},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "verwunderlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "bámulatos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "csodálatos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "páratlan"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "tüneményes"
},
{
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "stórkostlegur"
},
{
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"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
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},
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"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "apbrīnojams"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "čúdesen",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "чу́десен"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neverójaten",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "неверо́јатен"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "no",
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"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "fenomenal"
},
{
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "prodigiós"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "prodigioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izumítelʹnyj",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
"word": "изуми́тельный"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
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},
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "умопомрачи́тельный"
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},
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},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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},
{
"_dis1": "33 33 33 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "extraordinarily amazing",
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"ref": "[1707], [Colley] Cibber, The Double Gallant: Or, The Sick Lady’s Cure. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, […]; and sold by John Phillips, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [i], page 23:",
"text": "VVhat am I? Old! or a Monſter! Is it ſo prodigious, that a Man ſhou'd like me?",
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"ref": "1730, [Henry Fielding], Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in His Own Trap. A Comedy. […], London: […] J. Wat[t]s, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 33:",
"text": "Prodigious! […] VVhat in the Name of VVonder hath brought you to England?",
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"ref": "1733, “an Eminent Hand” [pseudonym; Alexander Pope], The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satyr. […], London: […] John Wil[f]ord, […], →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "Prodigious! hovv the Things Proteſt, Proteſt: / Peace, Fools! or Gonſon vvill for Papiſts ſeize you, / If once he catch you at your Jeſu! Jeſu!",
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"text": "'[T]is a marvel of marvels that this man should be a mighty King and ready for war, after his slaughter of all the wise men of his kingdom and his counsellors and the captains of his host and that his realm should be populous and prosper after this and there should issue therefrom this prodigious power!",
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"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *per-\nProto-Indo-European *pró\nProto-Indo-European *pro-\nProto-Italic *pro-\nLatin prō-\nLatin aiō\nLatin -ium\nLatin prōdigium\nLatin -ōsus\nLatin prōdigiōsusbor.\nMiddle English prodigious\nEnglish prodigious\nThe adjective is derived from Late Middle English prodigious (“warning of disaster, portentous”), from Latin prōdigiōsus (“strange, unnatural; marvellous, wonderful, prodigious”), from prōdigium (“prophetic sign, omen, portent; prodigy, wonder”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of’ forming adjectives from nouns). Prōdigium is derived from prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction, something before or prior, or prominence) + aiō (“to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ- (“to say”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as prodigy + -ous.\nThe adverb is derived from the adjective.\ncognates\n* Catalan prodigiós\n* Middle French prodigieux (“portentous”) (modern French prodigieux)\n* Italian prodigioso\n* Portuguese prodigioso\n* Spanish prodigioso",
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"ref": "1863 November – 1864 February, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Cousin Phillis. Part I.”, in Cousin Phillis. And Other Tales. […], illustrated edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 31:",
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