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Extraordinarily amazing.
(RQ:Cibber Double Gallant)
(RQ:Fielding Rape) VVhat in the Name of VVonder hath brought you to ''England?''
(RQ:Pope Impertinent)
(RQ:R. F. Burton Arabian Nights)
(quote-book)|edition=red seal|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Modern Age Books|year=1930|year_published=1937|section=part 2 (Back from the Chad)|page=194|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73738/page/n207/mode/1up|oclc=459358058|passage=A prodigious quantity of insects of all sorts (but no mosquitoes) assailed us at our evening meal.
''In a positive sense'': marvellous, wonderful; extremely talented, especially at a young age.

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(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimage) hearing a rumour of a prodigious vvell, vvhich (as the Poets tell of ''(w)'') vvould make olde men become young againe, plaid the yongling to goe ſearch it ſix monethes together, and in that inquirie diſcouers this Continent'':'' (..)
(RQ:James American Scene) Lafayette Square itself, contiguous to the Executive Mansion, could create a rich sense of the past by the use of scarce other witchcraft than its command of that pleasant perspective and its possession of the most prodigious of all Presidential effigies, (w), as archaic as a Ninevite king, prancing and rocking through the ages.
''In a negative sense'': appalling, horrifying, shocking; abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.

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(RQ:Grafton Chronicle) by his euill counſaile and prodigious ſuggeſtions, craftilye circumuented the king, inducyng him to graunt his letters of pardon to a great traytour the Erle of Arondell his brother (quote-gloss).
(RQ:Lyly Euphues)'' alleadged foure cauſes, which might induce man to acknowledge a God, (..) the thirde by the terror that the minde of man is ſtroken into, by (..) the prodigious ſhapes and vnnaturall formes of men, of beaſtes, of birdes, of fiſhes, of all creatures, (..)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all prodigious things, (..)
(RQ:Scott Guy Mannering)
(RQ:Shelley Cenci)
Very big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.

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(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World) are a fruit for a king, anſvverable to the mightie, huge, and prodigious tree that beareth it.
(RQ:Fuller Worthies of England)
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill) vvas poſitively of ſo tremendous a ſize, (..) you might have troll'd dice ſecurely along the broad back of the body of it: the length of it too vvas prodigious; (..)
(RQ:Hazlitt Dramatic Literature)
Having the nature of an omen or portent; ominous, portentous.

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(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1)
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World), vvhen hee vvas expelled and depoſed from that mightie ſtate of his, and this it vvas; The ſea vvater vvithin one day in the haven grevv to be freſh and ſvveet.
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(RQ:Gaskell Cousin Phillis)
portentous
astonishing, appalling