A-bŏm'i-na-ble, a.
a. [Lat. abominabilis, Fr. abominable. See ABOMINATE.]
Sense 1. Worthy of, or causing, imprecation or abhorrence; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable; odious.
All monstrous, all prodigious things, abominable. Milton.
Sense 2. Excellent; superior; excessive. [Obs.]
Fare! by Sesu [Jesu]! O, there is the most abominable seer [cheer]. Webster, 1607.
Juliana Berners, lady prioress of the nunnery of Sopwell in the fifteenth century, informs us that, in her time, “a bomynable syght of monkes” was elegant English for “a large company of friars.” G. P. Marsh.