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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1585
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Terrible, adv. [e.m.E. terryble (Caxton).] Terribly, dreadfully. —1585 Melvill 237.
Uzzia, the King of Juda, was sa terrible plagget, and his haill land schaken