Monstrous.

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1824.  Such “almighty” nonsense (to speak transatlanticè) no eye has ever beheld.—De Quincey. (N.E.D.)

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1848.  

        And when the news was brought to me,
  I felt almighty blue;
And though I didn’t shed no tear,
  Perhaps I cussed ‘a few.’
Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects, Love in the Bowery,’ p. 109.    

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1857.  There will be a thousand Brighams that will rise through him, just as much as it would if you went into your field, and you found an almighty big mustard stalk, and it was ripe, and you had no more sense but hit it a crack and break it down; there will be a thousand, and perhaps a million of mustards come from the old stalk.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, July 20: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 87.

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