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teratical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /təˈɹætɪkəl/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τεράτικος (terátikos, “monstrous”), from τέρας (téras, “monster”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) wonderful; ominous; prodigious
   • Herodotus, possibly delighting in teratical stories, might tell what he never heard: or the passage may be an interpolation; or it may be alterd in transcribing 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

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