| n. | 1. | Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. |
| 2. | Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs. | |
| 3. | Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty. | |
| a. | 1. | Monstrous in size. |
| 2. | Enormous or very powerful. | |
| v. t. | 1. | To make monstrous. |
| Noun | 1. | monster - an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts |
| 2. | monster - someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful | |
| 3. | monster - a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | |
| 4. | monster - a cruel wicked and inhuman person | |
| 5. | monster - (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus Synonyms: teras |
MONSTER, physiology, persons. An animal which has a conformation contrary to
the order of nature. Dunglison's Human Physiol. vol. 2, p. 422.
2. A monster, although born of a woman in lawful wedlock, cannot
inherit. Those who have however the essential parts of the human form and
have merely some defect of coformation, are capable of inheriting, if
otherwise qualified. 2 Bl. Com. 246; 1 Beck's Med. Jurisp. 366; Co. Litt. 7,
8; Dig. lib. 1, t. 5, l. 14; 1 Swift's Syst. 331 Fred. Code, Pt. 1, b. 1, t.
4, s. 4.
3. No living human birth, however much it may differ from human shape,
can be lawfully destroyed. Traill. Med. Jur. 47, see Briand, Med. Leg. 1ere
part. c. 6, art. 2, Sec. 3; 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 402-405.
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