a. Obs. in serious use. [ad. L. stupend-us: see STUPENDOUS. Cf. horrend, tremend.] Stupendous.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. vii. 35. In time of sleepe this faculty is free, & many times conceaues strange, stupend, absurd shapes. Ibid., II. ii. II. 314. The Romanes had their publike Bathes, very sumptuous and stupend.
1676. Doctrine of Devils, 25. That stupend miracle of Christ’s Incarnation.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. II. xix. 122. The stupend Variety of Human Faces.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 127. A lobster … of experience so stupend, His claws were blunted at the end, Turning life’s iron pages o’er.
Hence † Stupendly adv.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. iv. I. i. 717. The Brittaines are so stupendly superstitious in their ceremonies, that [etc.].
