atrocious deed
1atrocity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. enormity; outrage. See malevolence, badness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Brutality] Syn. inhumanity, wickedness, barbarity; see cruelty . 2. [A cruel deed] Syn. crime, offense, outrage, atrocious deed,… …
2atrocity — /əˈtrɒsəti / (say uh trosuhtee) noun (plural atrocities) 1. the quality of being atrocious. 2. an atrocious deed or thing. {Latin atrōcitas} …
3Pope Stephen VII — Infobox Pope English name=Stephen VII birth name=Stephanus term start=December, 928 term end=February, 931 predecessor=Leo VI successor=John XI birth date=??? birthplace=Rome, Italy dead=dead|death date=February, 931 deathplace=???… …
4284 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeRoman Republic* The Gallic tribe called the Senones, who has settled on the Adriatic coast north of Picenum, attacks Arretium in Etruria. While attempting to relieve this allied city, the Romans under the command of Lucius… …
5William Pitt the Younger — Infobox Prime Minister honorific prefix=The Right Honourable name =William Pitt imagesize=200px order =Prime Minister of the United Kingdom term start =10 May 1804 term end =23 January 1806 monarch =George III predecessor =Henry Addington… …
6Lysimachus — Infobox Monarch name =Lysimachus title =King of Thrace King of Asia Minor King of Macedon caption =Lysimachus as horned Alexander. reign =306 ndash;281 BCE coronation = othertitles = full name = predecessor = successor = suc type = heir = queen …
7Theodoric II — (in Spanish and Portuguese Teodorico ) murdered his older brother Thorismund to become king of the Visigoths in 453. Edward Gibbon writes that he justified this atrocious deed by the design which his predecessor had formed of violating his… …
8Stephen (VI) VII — Pope Stephen (VI) VII † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Stephen (VI) VII (896 7) Date of birth unknown; died about August, 897. Stephen was a Roman, and the son of John, a priest. He had been consecrated Bishop of Anagni, possibly… …
9Pope Stephen (VI) VII — Pope Stephen (VI) VII † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Stephen (VI) VII (896 7) Date of birth unknown; died about August, 897. Stephen was a Roman, and the son of John, a priest. He had been consecrated Bishop of Anagni, possibly… …
10atrocity — 1530s, from M.Fr. atrocité or directly from L. atrocitatem (nom. atrocitas) cruelty, fierceness, harshness, noun of quality from atrox fierce, cruel, frightful, from PIE *atro ek , from root *ater fire + *okw see; thus of fiery or threatening… …
