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† ˈmirable, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. mīrābilis, f. mīrārī to wonder: see -able.]
A. adj. Wonderful, marvellous.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 899 Now fylowes it for til here hire mirable Conceyving. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 389 A! myrable God, meche is thy myth. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 142. 1606 Holland Sueton. 271 With mirable sentences and Apophthegmes.
B. n. Something wonderful; a wonder.
1646Gaule Cases Consc. 33 The Arted Witch, or one onely speculative upon the abstruse Mirables of Nature. 1653H. Whistler Upshot Inf. Baptism 45 Ye grave Fathers & Bretheren, who find among the Mirables of Oxford Library that Coat [etc.]. |