Monster : (noun)
1: an imaginary creature usually having various human and
animal parts
2: someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
[syn: giant, goliath, behemoth, colossus]
3: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
[syn: freak, monstrosity, lusus naturae]
4: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: fiend, devil, demon,
ogre]
5: (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
[syn: teras]
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Monster : \Mon"ster\, n. [OE. monstre, F. monstre, fr. L.
monstrum, orig., a divine omen, indicating misfortune; akin
of monstrare to show, point out, indicate, and monere to
warn. See Monition, and cf. Demonstrate, Muster.]
1. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy;
an enormity; a marvel.
A monster or marvel. --Chaucer.
2. Specifically, an animal or plant departing greatly from
the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
3. Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness,
deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
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Monster : \Mon"ster\, a.
Monstrous in size. --Pope.
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Monster : \Mon"ster\, v. t.
To make monstrous. [Obs.] --Shak.
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MONSTER, physiology, persons. An animal which has a conformation contrary to
the order of nature. Dunglison's Human Physiol. vol. 2, p. 422.
2. A monster, although born of a woman in lawful wedlock, cannot
inherit. Those who have however the essential parts of the human form and
have merely some defect of coformation, are capable of inheriting, if
otherwise qualified. 2 Bl. Com. 246; 1 Beck's Med. Jurisp. 366; Co. Litt. 7,
8; Dig. lib. 1, t. 5, l. 14; 1 Swift's Syst. 331 Fred. Code, Pt. 1, b. 1, t.
4, s. 4.
3. No living human birth, however much it may differ from human shape,
can be lawfully destroyed. Traill. Med. Jur. 47, see Briand, Med. Leg. 1ere
part. c. 6, art. 2, Sec. 3; 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 402-405.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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