Horrid, horned
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- horrid: bristling (archaic)
- horridus: (Latin) bristling; shaggy; rough, rugged
- horned: cuckolded
- horned: Moses was thought to be horned due to a mistranslation by St Jerome's in the Latin Vulgate Bible of Exodus 34:29: cumque descenderet Moses de monte Sinai tenebat duas tabulas testimonii et ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua ex consortio sermonis Dei ("And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.") → Michelangelo's famous statue of Moses depicts him with horns
