abˈhorrible, a. Now rare.
[f. L. abhorrē-re (see abhor), on the type of horrible, L. horribilis f. the simple horrēre.]
To be abhorred, detestable.
| 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 7 (1865) 364 a, How abhorrible is that vice, which shall rob a man of himself, and lay a beast in his room! 1822 J. Scott Life Rev. T. Scott (ed. 5, 1823) xvi. 531 O Lord, abhor me not—though I be indeed abhorrible, and abhor myself! 1849 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 646 Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, seems to me to be the most that can be borne of one purely abhorrible. 1862 Illustr. Times 17 May 46/3 The relief consists..in being fed upon detestable gruel, and such other abhorrible viands as poor-law guardians may consider economical and proper. |