teratical

adj

teratical

adj

/təˈɹætɪkəl/

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

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 transcribing1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

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