ETYMOLOGY
from Latin minac-, minax (threatening), from minae (threats) + -ax + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…or with a pleasant horrour and chilness look upon some silent Wood, or solemn shady Grove; whether the face of Heaven smile upon us with a chearfull bright azure, or look upon us with a more sad and minacious countenance, dark pitchy Clouds being charged with Thunder and Lightning to let fly against the Earth; whether the Aire be cool, fresh and healthful, or whether it be soultry, contagious and pestilential, so that while we gasp for life we are forc’d to draw in a sudden and inevitable Death…”
From: An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness
By Henry More, 1660
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