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

This is abhominable which he would call abominable; it insinuateth me of insanie; Ne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

The fables of Atreus, Thiestes, Tereus and Progne signifieth the wicked and abhominable facts wrought and attempted by mortall men.

From The Golden Asse by Adlington, William, fl. 1566

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

Incẽse is an abhominable thinge vnto me / I maye not awaie with your newe moones. &c.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

This is abhominable, which he would call abominable,—it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.

From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William