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Middle English
Etymology
hidous + -ly.
Adverb
hidously
- hideously
14th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale:The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
So hidously þat with þe leste strook
That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook- The bright swords went to and fro
So hideously that with the least stroke
That it seems that it would fell an oak