Gargantuan

gargantuan English Adjective en gargantuan. 5 The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer. en Notes w:The Chap-Book V 5 H. S. Stone & Company 15 July 1896 240 https://archive.org/details/chapbooksemimont05chic/page/240/mode/1up Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting. en P[hilip] B[ertram] M[urray] Allan Books Which Form the Library The Book-Hunter at Home London Philip Allan and Co. 1920 88 https://archive.org/details/bookhunterathome00allaiala/page/88/mode/1up Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet. en w:The New York Times Book Review 1932 2 and 26 https://books.google.com/books?id=9fkniSIWEcsC&q=Gargantuan Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd—the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous—which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.with a Gargantuan art unexampled in our time. en R.F. Black; S. Dentzer Bush’s October Surprise w:U.S. News & World Report 111 19 4 November 1991 The telecommunications giant hopes that this write-off, which contributed to its Gargantuan $1.8 billion third-quarter loss, will clear the way for a steady stream of future earnings. en w:David Fricke U2 Finds What It’s Looking For w:Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/u2-finds-what-its-looking-for-189823/2/ 1 October 1992 Two East German Trabant cars attached to huge mechanical arms and outfitted with spotlights scan the crowd like alien prison sentries while a patchwork video quilt of Gargantuan screens, multi-image Vidiwalls and TV monitors spews words and pictures with exhausting velocity — Rock & Roll Mission Control running on amphetamine fast forward. https://web.archive.org/web/20230204010306/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/u2-finds-what-its-looking-for-189823/2/ 4 February 2023 en Teresa F.A. Alves In Praise Of Saul’s Soul American Studies International https://www.jstor.org/stable/41279449 XXXV 1 February 1997 37 “Oh, you can’t get away from rhythm, Romilayu […] You can’t get away from it,” claims the “fantastic” protagonist who adds to the rings of Hank Morgan’s exploits a truly Gargantuan dimension. en Stephen Dixon Winter w:New England Review 2006 161 I’ve shoveled this Gargantuan driveway the last twelve winters. en Religion and Science w:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 20 February 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070609124956/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-science/ 9 June 2007 They therefore present what he calls a Lilliputian challenge to unguided Darwinism; if he is right, they present it with a Gargantuan challenge as well. Derived terms en Gargantuanly