a. [f. L. abnorm-is irregular (f. ab away from + norma rule) + -OUS. Cf. enormous.] ‘Irregular, misshapen.’ J. (no quot.)
[Not in Phillips 1706.]
1742. Bailey, Abnormous, mishapen, vast, huge.
1771. Antiq. Sarisb., 240. Sir Toby Matthews was a character equally if not of a more abnormous cast than his suspected coadjutor.
1838–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. IV. v. § 48. 251. The general structure of the couplet through the seventh century may be called abnormous.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. i. 3 (1862). The former [divine myths] being often the more extravagant and abnormous in their incidents.
