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Webster 1913 Edition
Monstrosity
Mon-stros′i-ty
(mŏn-strŏs′ĭ-ty̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Monstrosities
(mŏn-strŏs′ĭ-tĭz)
. [Cf. F.
monstruosité
. See Monstrous
.] The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
South.
A
monstrosity
never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans.).
Webster 1828 Edition
Monstrosity
MONSTROS'ITY
,Noun.
We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast.
1.
An unnatural production; that which is monstrous. Fabri arranges distortions, gibbosities, tumors, &c. in the class of morbific monstrosities.
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species.