gigantean

gigantean

English

Etymology

From Latin giganteus. See giant.

Adjective

gigantean (comparative more gigantean, superlative most gigantean)

1. (obsolete) Like a giant; gigantic, mighty.
   • a. 1687, Henry More, Out of the Anthologie a Distick

     When the strong Fates with Gigantean force , Bear thee in iron arms without remorse

   • 1642, Thomas Barton, “Section II”, in ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ. [APODEIXIS TOU ANTITEICHISMATOS.] Or, A Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. […], London: Printed by Thomas Purslow, for Andrew Crooke, […], published 1643, OCLC 1089812597, page 16:

     [Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gigantean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)