hidously

Middle English

Etymology

hidous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

hidously

1. hideously
   • 14^th 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