
Noah Webster
Monstrosity
MONSTROS'ITY, noun The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature.
We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast.
1. An unnatural production; that which is monstrous.
Fabri arranges distortions, gibbosities, tumors, etc. in the class of morbific monstrosities.
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species.