Definition of Portintous
Por*tent"ous (?), a. [L.
portentosus.] 1. Of the nature of a
portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill;
ominous.
For, I believe, they are portentous
things. Shak.
Victories of strange and almost portentous
splendor. Macaulay.
2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful;
dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
Roscommon.
-- Por*tent"ous*ly, adv. --
Por*tent"ous*ness, n.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Of or like a portent; foreboding.
- Excessively or pompously solemn.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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