monstrosify

present singular third person monstrosifies · participle present monstrosifying · participle past monstrosified · past monstrosified

1. To make into a monstrosity.

   This monstrosifying of the male central character – going all the way back to Scanners – has an analogue in the ‘realist’ (i.e., non-horror-genre) outlines of the films.

   2001, William Beard, The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 202

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   XXXII. Honour and right principle. [Lord Byron monstrosified by Dr. Faustus, and his own vanity, (over and above the romantic defamation of extravagant admirers.)] The heart and the lips,

   1835, Laughton Osborn, “Contents of Vol. I.”, in Confessions of a Poet, volume First, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page vii

   We have Corinthian columns placed beside pilasters of no order at all, surmounted by monstrosified pepper-boxes, Gothic in form and Grecian in detail, in a building nominally and peculiarly national;[…]

   1837 November 29, Kata Phusin [pseudonym; John Ruskin], “The Poetry of Architecture: No. 1. Introduction”, in J. C. Loudon, editor, The Architectural Magazine, volume IV, number 45, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, pages 505-506