Definition for POR-TENT'OUS

POR-TENT'OUS, a. [L. portentosus.]

  1. Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous.
  2. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense. No beast of more portentous size, / In the Hercynian forest lies. – Roscommon.

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