a. Now rare. Also 6–7 vgle-; 9 ogglesome. β. 6–7 ouglesome. [app. f. prec. + -SOME.] Fearful, horrible, gruesome.
α. 1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, III. (1577), Q viij. Some are compelled by their fathers to take olde men ful of diseases vglesome and wayward. Ibid., IV. X iij b. A face darke, vglesome, vnpleasaunt, and to be shunned for yll.
1576. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 3), 1904/2. When I beholde the amiable countenance of Christ … ye vglesome [1563 vgsome] face of death doth not greatly trouble me.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1877), 188. They shal be punished in fire and brimstone amongest the terrible Company of vgglesome Deuills. Ibid. (1591), Christal Glasse, C ij b. As though she saw some filthie vgglesome, and displeasant thing.
1617. J. Moore, Mappe Mans Mort., I. viii. 58. It shewed … our vglesome shape, most monstrous to beholde.
1855. Chambers’ Jrnl., 7 July, 13. This ‘ugglesome beast’ seldom troubles me, for his dwelling is in some secluded cleft of the stone.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 14 Nov. That weird and ogglesome beast the Wangdoodlum.
β. 1575. Vautrollier, Luther on Ep. Gal., 260. In the wilde wildernes, which being burnt vp with the heat of the Sunne, yeldeth an ouglesome habitation to the Monkes.
1608. Dod & Cleaver, Expos. Prov. xi.–xii. 69. In the froward he seeth the work of the diuell, whereby they are depraued and made most vile & ouglesome.
1622. S. Ward, Life of Faith in Death (1627), 26. When I behold the ouglesome face of death, I am afrayd, but when I consider Christs amiable Countenence, I take heart againe. [Cf. quot. 1576 above.]
