PORTENT'OUS, adjective [Latin portentosus.] Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous
1. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense.
No beast of more portentous size,
In the Hercynian forest lies.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.