prodigy (n.) Old form(s): prodigie
omen, portent, sign
1H4 V.i.20[King Henry to Worcester] Will you ... be no more an exhaled meteor, / A prodigy of fear
JC I.iii.28[Casca to Cicero, of weird happenings] When these prodigies / Do so conjointly meet, let not men say ... they are natural
JC II.i.198[Cassius to all, of Caesar] It may be these apparent prodigies ... / May hold him from the Capitol today
KJ III.iv.157[Cardinal Pandulph to Lewis the Dauphin, of the people reacting to natural phenomena] they will ... call them meteors, prodigies and signs
Tit I.i.104[Lucius to Titus, of a sacrifice of one of the Goths] so the shadows be not unappeased, / Nor we disturbed with prodigies on earth
TS III.ii.95[Petruchio to all, of their stares] As if they saw... / Some comet, or unusual prodigy
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