Hideous, (dissyll.; trisyll. in Wiv. IV, 4, 34) frightful, shocking, horrible: Lucr. 973. Sonn. 5, 6. 12, 2. Wiv. IV, 4, 34. Meas. I, 4, 63. All's V, 3, 52. Tw. I, 5, 221. IV, 2, 34. John IV, 2, 266. V, 4, 22. H4B II, 3, 35. H6C V, 6, 46. R3 I, 4, 60. H8 I, 1, 90. Rom. IV, 3, 50. Caes. II, 1, 65. Mcb. II, 3, 87. Hml. I, 4, 54. II, 2, 498. Lr. I, 4, 282. Oth. III, 3, 108. “drive the gentleman into a most h. opinion of his rage,” Tw. III, 4, 212 (i. e. into an opinion of the extreme hideousness of his rage). “check this h. rashness,” Lr. I, 1, 153 (shocking, in a moral sense).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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