tremend

comparative more tremend · superlative most tremend

1. obsoleteSynonym of tremendous.

   IN the Hebrew, thou ſhalt not bear or carry, namely in thy Mouth; which is the ſame with, Thou ſhalt not take, viz. into thy Mouth. Here alſo is, of the Lord; becauſe by that Title the tremend Majeſty of God is beſt underſtood.

   1682, [Walter Charleton], “The Third Precept explicated. Οὐ λήμψη τὸ ὄνομα τȣ̃ Κυρίȣ τȣ̃ Θεȣ̃ σȣ,˙ Thou ſhalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God, &c.”, in The Harmony of Natural and Positive Divine Laws, London: […] Walter Kettilby, […], page 143

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   A greater fault in truth can not be named, then this was. But to them who eſteme the tremend Myſteries foꝛ pꝛophane Idols, it ſemeth moꝛe greuouſe, that theſe falſe bꝛethꝛen burned ⁊ rent not only al kinde of Church bokes, but moꝛe ouer deſtroied whole Libꝛaries and bokes of al ſciences and tõgues, yea the holy Scriptures, and the Auncient Fathers, and toꝛe in peeces the Maps, and charts of the deſcriptions of Countries.

   1567, Nicolas Sander, “The Argument of the Treatise folowing”, in A Treatise of the Images of Christ, and of His Saints: and that It Is Vnlaufull to Breake Them, and Lauful to Honour Them. […], Leuven: Apud Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, folio 4, verso

   Synonyms: tremendous