SYN: Irrational, ridiculous, monstrous, senseless, asinine, stupid, chimerical, unreasonable, preposterous, silly, nonsensical, foolish.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

During the marriage ceremonies of Brāhmans and some non-Brāhman castes, the bride and bridegroom are seated in a swing within the marriage booth, and songs called uyyāla patalu (swing songs) are sung by women to the accompaniment of music.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

; undernom , pt. s. , C3; undernumen , pp. , S; undirnommen , W; undernome , PP.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Up-braiding , sb. reproach, S2. Up-breiden , v. to reproach, S, W. Up-breyd , sb. reproach, S2. Up-cumen , v. to ascend; uppcumenn , S. Up-heuen , v. to raise, S2; uphaf , pt. s. , C; uphouen , pp. , S2; upe-houen , S2. Up-holdere , sb. seller of second-hand things, P. Up-londisch , adj.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Usen , v. to use, to be accustomed, PP, S3, C2; usede , pt. s. , SD, PP; usiden , pl. , dealt with, W; yvsed , pp. , S2; uset , customary, PP; used , C3; vsyt , S3; oysit , B; wsyt , S3.—AF. user .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

And in leaving the fish-house let me say that this educational value, so to speak, of the Zoological Gardens undoubtedly forms one of their strongest claims upon public support.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Her eyes were dilated and wild, and she constantly uttered piercing shrieks, and repeated the words, 'My husband, my father, and my brother!'
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I have laid myself open (I know it) in this treatise, turned mine inside outward: I shall be censured, I doubt not; for, to say truth with Erasmus, nihil morosius hominum judiciis , there is nought so peevish as men's judgments; yet this is some comfort, ut palata, sic judicia , our censures are as various as our palates.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

how he and “Mary” would doat upon him, feeding him upon some celestial, unspeakable pap , “sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes, or Cytherea’s breath.”
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

Of course I played in many plays, sometimes small, comparatively unimportant parts, sometimes, as in the two-hundred-night run of "Divorce," I played a long, hard-working part, that was without any marked characteristic or salient feature to make a hit with.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

The selfsame course unalterably pursue, So have old customs there, from sire to son, Been handed down, unchanging and unchanged; Nor will they brook to swerve or turn aside From the fixed, even tenor of their life.
— from Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller