abhominable

American  

[ab-hom-uh-nuh-buhl] / æbˈhɒm ə nə bəl /

adjective

Obsolete.

1. abominable.

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Etymology

Origin of abhominable

1325–75; Middle English < Medieval Latin abhominābilis, alteration of Latin abōminābilis abominable, by association with phrase ab homine from man, inhuman

Example Sentences

May 2nd, I understode of one Vincent Murfyn his abhominable misusing me behinde my back; Mr. Thomas Besbich told me his father is one of the cokes of the Court.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

The life followyng of Nero was so abhominable, that the shame of his life, will make any man a fraied, to leaue any memorie of hym.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard

It is worth remarking, in order to fix the adjustment of a passage in Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost," A. 4, S. I: This is abhominable which he would call abominable.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Capell's edition, nearly agreeable to the quartos, or, this is abominable which we would call abhominable.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Heaven I beseech thee, what an abhominable sort of Followers have I put upon mee: ...

From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Howard, Clare