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  • 41monstrous — [ˈmɒnstrəs] adj 1) cruel, unfair, or morally wrong 2) very large and ugly or frightening monstrously adv …

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  • 42monstrous — adj. 1 like a monster; abnormally formed. 2 huge. 3 a outrageously wrong or absurd. b atrocious. Derivatives: monstrously adv. monstrousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF monstreux or L monstrosus (as MONSTER) …

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  • 43Conjecture Monstrous Moonshine — Monstrous moonshine En mathématiques, monstrous moonshine est un terme anglais conçu par John Horton Conway et Simon P. Norton en 1979, utilisé pour décrire la connexion (alors totalement inattendue) entre le groupe Monstre M et les fonctions… …

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  • 44monstrous births —    Minor defects in a newborn baby were generally explained as due to some shock or unpleasant sight at the moment of *conception, or during the mother s *pregnancy, but major malformations were regarded as God s *judgement on serious sin,… …

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  • 45A Monstrous Regiment of Women — Infobox Book | name = A Monstrous Regiment of Women title orig = translator = image caption = author = Laurie R. King illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Mary Russell subject = genre = Detective novel… …

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  • 46The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women — is a work by the Scottish Reformer John Knox, published in 1558.The word regiment is used here meaning government or regime . The book was written anonymously from Geneva, Switzerland, against the female sovereigns of his day, particularly Mary I …

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  • 47grotesque monstrous unnatural — nonhuman onhuman adj. not human. Opposite of {human}. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike}; {bloodless}; {dehumanized, unhuman}; {grotesque, monstrous, unnatural}; {mechanical}] [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 48Monsters of Faerûn — Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn is a supplement for the 3rd edition of Dungeons Dragons. Contents 1 Contents 2 Publication history 3 Reception 4 Reviews …

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  • 49lamiae —    Monstrous female birth DEMONs found in Middle Eastern and Greek lore. The lamiae are named after Lamme, a destroyer deity in Babylonian and Assyrian lore, and Lamia, who was the mistress of Zeus. Lamia was the beautiful daughter of Belus, the… …

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  • 50Demons —    Monstrous servants of Morgoth.    Dread creatures that ranked among the most powerful of Morgoth s servants. The most feared of demons were the Balrogs, Maiar seduced to Melkor s service in the beginning of the world, but it seems the Dark… …

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