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miraclen. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French miracle. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French miracle (c1050 in Old French; also in Anglo-Norman in form mirakelle ; c1258 in sense 2b, late 13th cent. in sense ‘astonishing thing’, 1567 in sense ‘thing worthy of admiration, marvel’, 1690 in weakened use) < classical Latin mīrāculum object of wonder, in post-classical Latin also miracle (from 4th cent. in Christian authors), miracle play (13th cent. in British sources) < mīrārī to wonder ( < mīrus wonderful; further etymology uncertain) + -culum -cule suffix; compare -cle suffix. Compare Old Occitan miracle (a1231), Italian miracolo (a1292), Spanish milagro (1495; earlier in forms miraglo (c1300), and miraclo (c1140); compare also milagro n.), Portuguese milagre (1441; earlier in form miragre (13th cent.)).Latin miraculum in sense 1a, though common in patristic and later theology, is found only rarely in the Vulgate, and only in the Old Testament. The Greek words rendered ‘miracle’ in the English Bible, σημεῖον ‘sign’, τέρας ‘wonder’, and δύναμις ‘power’ or ‘mighty work’, are usually translated by signum , prodigium , and virtus respectively, but compare examples of miraculum at Numbers 26:10 (where the Greek has σημεῖον , the English (King James Bible) ‘sign’), Job 37:14 (with Greek δύναμις , English ‘wondrous works’), and Exodus 11:7, where the Latin translator appears to have interpreted Greek παραδοξάσει as ‘to make wonderful or extraordinary’ rather than ‘to put a mark of distinction between’ (King James version ‘put a difference between’). With the β. forms compare Old French mericle (late 12th cent. in phrase a mericle , rare), which may show a popular or semi-popular Old French form alongside the learned form miracle . γ. forms probably arise from β. forms, with lowering of ĕ to ă before r . (Compare E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §67). Also in U.S. regional use in spellings representing variant pronunciations, as maracle , marracle , meracle , mericale , merracle , muracle , murricle , and mycle : see Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. at miracle n. Sc. National Dict. records (at cited word) also meerical , miracle in 19th- and 20th-cent. Orkney use, denoting (in plural) phosphorescent gleams seen in the sea (perhaps compare mareel n.). 1. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > working wonders or miracles > miracle the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > working wonders or miracles > miracle > indicating divine intervention ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 He maket þur ure Drihtin wunderlice & manifældlice miracles. c1225 (?c1200) (1973) 1074 Miracles þet beð maket ȝet þurh him [sc. Christ]. a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 66 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 128 Bodi..ihc wil tellit te Of tuo miracles and fiue, bi for domes dai sal ben. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall (1920) I. 215 (MED) Þis was þe commencement of þo miracles of ure loruerde þet he made flesliche in erþe. 1340 (1866) 56 (MED) At cherche kan god his uirtues sseawy and do his miracles, þe blynde to liȝte, þe crokede to riȝte. c1385 G. Chaucer 2675 A myracle ther bifel anon. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 177 Iesu..did þe meracles sua rijf Þat þe Iuus him hild in strijf. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 438 Þorw myracles..al þat marche he torned To cryst and to crystendome. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 90 (MED) This was the firste myracle..þat Machomete dide. a1500 (?c1400) (Adv.) (1886) 743 (MED) He garus þo blynd to see, And þo dompe to speyke..And mony odur meracullus yytte. ?c1510 tr. sig. E Saint Thomas doeth more myracles, than ony seynt in heuen. ?1555 sig. Ciii If that be not inough to brynge her bountie in your credence, ye shall to affirme the same, here of a myracle whiche in the olde dayes she wrought. 1608 Bp. J. Hall I. i. vi. 73 Miracles must be iudged by the doctrine which they confirme; not the doctrine by the miracles. 1640 J. Howell 132 Prince Rocalino..,was desird by her to see a Vestall Saint in his way as he passd, who was then cried up for miracles. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet iv. 62 A Miracle is a Work that exceeds all the known Powers of Nature. 1710 M. Chudleigh 212 The peculiar Favourites of Heaven, a People preservd by Wonders, and conversant with Miracles. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler I. 382 A St. Ignatius performing a miracle, by Rubens on another altar. 1812 R. Southey I. cxlii. 270 The night mare has been a fruitful source of miracles and diablery in the Romish mythology. 1865 J. B. Mozley i. 5 Miracles or visible suspensions of the order of nature for a providential purpose, are not in contradiction to reason. 1887 R. F. Burton tr. III. dxci. 190 Hast thou no fear of Allah that thou killest Fatimah, this saintly woman, whose miracles are far-famed? 1924 G. B. Shaw ii. 23 An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. 1958 G. Greene ii. i. 72 There were miracles too; a virgin wept salt tears and a candle lit before our Lady of Guadalupe burnt inexplicably for one week. 1988 M. Dibdin 4 The poor pray for miracles, the poor think they have a right to them. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Al were þurch Miracle iboren. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 500 [Godard] Sum-del bigan him forto rewe; With-drow þe knif... Þer was miracle fair and god! Þat he þe knaue nouth ne slou. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 662 That therof mai be non obstacle, Bot if it stonde upon miracle. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iii. 1364 (MED) Be verray hiȝe myracle, Pollydamas..From Grekis hond frely is eskapid. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in 132/2 Go to Christes gospell & loke on his first miracle, whither he might not haue prouided for wine without miracle. 1582 G. Whetstone ii. sig. Ev Our Ladye by myracle, had possessed them, with her earthlye Mansion. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 265 Then you fled into this Abbey heere, From whence I thinke you are come by Miracle . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton i. 337 Who brought me hither Will bring me hence... By Miracle he may, reply'd the Swain. View more context for this quotation a1701 C. Sedley iv. iii By miracle I scap'd thy plotted Mischiefs. 1743 E. Young 10 Am I fond of Life, Who scarce can think it possible, I live? Alive by Miracle! 1855 H. H. Milman IV. ix. ix. 256 By what was believed to be miracle, which might be holy art. 1869 H. P. Liddon (1897) viii. 164 When we take up the Book of Jonah, that which strikes us first of all..is the degree in which miracle pervades the whole narrative. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ xxi. 258 The holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear water burst forth by miracle in a desert place. 1919 R. Kipling 146 Our marriage, often set—By miracle delayed—At last is consummate. 1934 W. Empson 11 Imagine, then, by miracle, with me, (Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be) What could not possibly be there. 1962 P. Goodman 98 Now have we come into a natural world where there are no things that do not exist and not by miracle the tree and beast invent in the unfinishing creation their beauty. 2. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > event society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > marvellous tale > [noun] c1390 G. Chaucer 1881 Whan seyd was al this myracle, euery man As sobre was that wonder was to se. ?a1450 in (1923) 38 341 Here bigynneþ þe miracles of oure lady. a1500 (?c1425) (1936) 27 (MED) Now haveth here a miracle. Ther was som tyme an howsewyf. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > mystery or miracle play c1395 G. Chaucer 558 To pleyes of myracles and to mariages. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 4659 Þat make swyche pleyys..As myracles and bourdys. c1600 (?c1395) (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 107 We Menures..at marketts & myracles..medleþ vs nevere. 1798 in (1800) 13 237 But those theatrical pieces called ‘Miracles’ were their delight beyond all others. 1852 H. Hallam E. European Drama in 4 Geoffrey, afterwards abbot of St. Alban's, while teaching a school at Dunstable, caused one of the shows, vulgarly called miracles, on the story of St. Catherine to be represented in that town. 1912 27 188/2 An orderly chronological development—from liturgical drama to miracle plays, from miracles to morality plays [etc.]. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. 3661 (MED) This ilke ymage as for miracle Was set upon an hyh pinacle, That alle men it mihte knowe. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 24 Ȝit es þe heued of þat beste with þe hornes halden and keped at Alisaunder for a miracle. a1475 St. Mary Magdalene (Durh.) 82 in (1893) 91 220 (MED) She..tolde alle the placis and the miraclis, that hir husbonde had seen. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach iv. f. 167 The byrd appeareth as it were a myracle of nature [L. naturae miraculo]. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > cause of surprise the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > act or achievement 1586 12 The bottomlesse graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almightie..I must..admire..accounting them as well miracles as benefites. 1592 T. Kyd iii. sig. E2 What meanes this vnexpected miracle? My Sonne slaine by Lorenzo and the Prince. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. 108 Being thus cram'd in the Basket..it was a miracle [1602 it was maruell] to scape suffocation. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Stafford i. xiv. 84 Captaine Flower at Lysmore, wrought miracles against the Rebels in those parts. 1692 J. Dryden ii. ii. 17 O Miracle! He blushes! 1748 S. Richardson III. xlix. 244 It would be a miracle if she stood such an attempter. 1779 H. Cowley i. iii. sig. I1v Beauty can work miracles with all mankind, except an obstinate father. 1819 Ld. Byron l. 144 Half epileptical, and half hysterical:—Their preservation would have been a miracle. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ 35 It would, indeed, have been a miracle had a copy, of any equally unimportant book, been found at such a distance of time in that unenviable situation. 1860 E. B. Pusey 257 The moral miracles were, in these hundreds of thousands, God's over-powering grace. 1903 11 Sept. 3/1 There are two theories to account for the radium ‘miracle’. 1954 W. Faulkner 273 The miracle is that we have anything left after four years of being overrun by foreigners. 1973 A. Price ix. 128 I don't mind him being part of the Italian economic miracle. 1992 17 Aug. 39/3 After conceding four goals in the Charity Shield last weekend, it's a miracle they weren't reduced to a similar shambles. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder 1595 S. Daniel iv. xv. sig. T2v That magnanimous King Mirror of vertue, miracle of worth. 1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden (rev. ed.) 44 Take the miracle of our age Sir Philip Sidney. 1617 F. Moryson iii. 64 The Bridge at London is worthily to be numbred among the miracles of the world. 1687 A. Benn iii. 161 She..indeed is a Miracle of Piety. 1709 J. Lawson 145 The Humming-Bird is the Miracle of all our wing'd Animals. 1744 S. Fielding II. v. 249 He therefore believed her a Miracle of Discretion. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in 57 It was a miracle of rare device. 1845 G. L. Craik V. 174 To Garrick, a miracle of an actor,..we owe [etc.]. 1870 W. Collins II. xxxvii. 229 To the eye of Bishopriggs she was a miracle of beauty. 1903 Jan. 65 The whole story is a miracle in monotone. 1991 Apr. 50/3 The HBV genome is a miracle of compactness. It consists of only four potential genes. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer xi. 168 A daughter that surpast; Rare-beautied Pero, so for forme exact; That Nature, to a miracle, was rackt, In her perfections, blaz'd with th' eyes of men. 1650 J. Trapp (Gen. xxxi. 27) 247 Hypocrites are likened to bull-rushes, which are green and smoothe; and he is curious to a miracle, that can finde a knot in them. 1673 J. Dryden i. i. 1 Gad, Sir, every thing becomes you to a miracle. 1711 J. Addison No. 108. ¶3 He makes a May-fly to a Miracle. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran cvii. 350 Things went on to a Miracle. 1841 C. Dickens i. xvi. 178 Nelly..was soon busily engaged in her task, and accomplishing it to a miracle. 1882 R. L. Stevenson I. 143 I understand my part to a miracle. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) 1807 ‘P. Pindar’ in Feb. 1 Methinks I see them [sc. Chaucer's pilgrims] on the road To Becket's miracle-abode. 1751 G. Lavington 101 One of their famous Miracle-Authors declares, that one Brother was so elevated..that he boasted of having Visions of Angels attending him. (b) the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > relating to working wonders or miracles > relating to a miracle > produced by a miracle 1928 W. B. Yeats 62 Even the grey-leaved olive tree Miracle-bred out of the living stone. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > relating to working wonders or miracles > relating to a miracle > proof against miracles 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury ii. v. 142 The safest Station in Christianity is his who can be mov'd by nothing of this kind, and is thus Miracle-proof. b. Objective. (a) the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > working wonders or miracles 1677 R. Gilpin ii. iii. 233 When his [sc. Satan's] Agents can go no further in the Trade of Miracle-making, he [etc.]. 1892 195 493/1 The country people..become ardent believers in the prowess and miracle-making power of their own particular and local saint. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > that works or performs wonders or miracles the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > promotion of miracles > one who promotes miracles 1584 R. Scot viii. i. 157 Why..doo not these (meaning miraclemongers) appoint some Siloah to swim in? 1856 R. A. Vaughan I. i. v. 52 All the pretences, both of heathen and of Christian miracle-mongers. 1970 P. Einzig vii. 62 Some would-be miracle-mongers carry even further their childlike faith in the all-curing effect of..letting the exchange float. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > promotion of miracles the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective] > characteristic of miracle-mongers 1863 M. Arnold Eugénie de Guérin in June 794 Catholicism appears to be..losing itself in..miracle-mongering. 1945 54 41 Whitehead has to be acquitted of this kind of miracle-mongering and superstition. 1992 51 446 Reformers..have had trouble with what seemed like idolatry, miracle mongering and gross venality. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > that works or performs wonders or miracles the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person > one who works wonders the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > that works or performs wonders or miracles > in God's name or by divine aid 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin C.'s Pref. sig. A ivv The Lorde hath made vs ware agaynste suche miracle workers. 1857 A. P. Stanley (ed. 3) ii. 103 His [sc. Becket's] fame as the great miracle-worker of the time, was increasing every month. 1988 5 166/2 I don't expect a miracle worker I just want people who try. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > relating to working wonders or miracles > that works wonders or miracles the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective] 1605 F. Bacon ii. sig. Mm2 They haue exalted the power of the imagination, to be much one with the power of Miracle-working faith. View more context for this quotation 1867 G. A. Macfarren iv. 148 This miracle-working harmony. 1970 11 June 8/1 Zwingli..accepted a preaching post at the Convent of Einsiedein, a popular centre of pilgrimage with a famed ‘miracle working’ statue of the Virgin Mary. 1999 T. Etchells 40 Everyone wanted to press the story of her miracle working into a story of their own devising. (b) the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > relating to working wonders or miracles > that works wonders or miracles 1814 J. West III. 174 By pacing at midnight the flinty aisle of some miracle-breeding chapel. C2. 1971 6 May 323/3 An East African fruit called serendipity berries or miracle berries possesses a taste-modifying substance that makes sour food taste sweet... Miracle berry was suggested..as..a potential sweetener for yogurt. 1977 13 415/2 (heading) Sweetening compound from synsepalum dulcificum, the miracle berry of Ghana. 1873 Feb. 385/1 It is instructive..to trace..the passage through fetichism, miracle-cure, and astrology to a sound system of medicine such as that propagated by Hippocrates. 1968 22 824 Paralyzed by hopes of a miracle cure known as ‘going into Europe’, they [sc. the British] are incapable of coming to terms with their real problems. 1993 Jan. 43/2 There are no miracle cures for heart disease—but some of the risks are avoidable. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > wonderful medicine 1944 7 454 We seem to be entering a period of ‘miracle’ drugs. 1970 P. Moyes xvi. 209 I got hold of the streptomycin..and the miracle drug worked. She was cured. 1999 14 Nov. iv. 16/4 Advances in biotechnology and genomics..promise a wealth of exciting new miracle drugs in the next decade. 1965 13 284/1 Miracle fruit has the unique property of causing sour materials to taste sweet after the mouth has been exposed to the fruit's mucilaginous material. 1988 15 May 42 From the lush, tropical jungle of West Africa comes the amazing miracle fruit. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > that works or performs wonders or miracles the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person > one who works wonders 1914 F. L. Packard (title) The miracle man. 1926 A. Conan Doyle I. iii. 54 He [sc. Andrew Jackson Davis] was a miracle man, the inspired, learned, uneducated apostle of the new dispensation. 1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe 185 In priestly robes and wreath a miracle-man Will now fulfil what he in hopes began. 1995 26 Apr. 5/1 A miracle man who survived a 25,000-volt shock and being hit by a train. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > promotion of miracles > one who promotes miracles 1603 S. Harsnett 103 I should haue acquainted you how the Miracle-minter in his miracle booke doth solemnly tell vs, that [etc.]. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play > in mystery or miracle plays a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) II. 46 To pristis it is uttirly forbedyn not onely to been myracle pleyere but also to heren or to seen myraclis pleyinge. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of rice or rice-plants 1968 22 277 The newly discovered ‘Philippine miracle rice’ promises yields of seven tons of grain on plots now producing two tons. 1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim iii. 278 The introduction of new strains of foodcrops (‘miracle wheat’, ‘miracle rice’) is supposed to suffice to get the evolutionist wheels of the ailing rural economies turning again. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > working wonders or miracles c1425 (Egerton) (1967) l. 965 (MED) Simple men sal he deceyue with miracles-doyng. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 188 Bi the seid euydencis of myraculis doing. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Gough) (1905) 6 Ȝe schull come to þe chyrch..forto worschip [St Andrew]..for gret myracles doyng. a1631 J. Donne (1956) VIII. 366 In the Romane Church, (where miracles for every naturall disease may be had, at some Shrine, or miracle-shop, better cheap, then a Medicine..). 1788 J. Cobb I. 19 No, Sir, 'tis my miracle shop. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) II. 44 (MED) Myraclis pleyinge is of the lustis of the fleyssh and myrthe of the body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). miraclev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: miracle n. Etymology: < miracle n.Compare evidence for Scots forms mergle (attested early 19th cent.) and meracle (attested 20th cent.) in sense ‘to marvel at, wonder, be astonished’ in Sc. National Dict. s.v. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [verb (intransitive)] > work wonders or miracles 1548 G. Joye tr. A. Osiander iii. sig. Biiij Which wordes can not be vnderstanden of our comon dayes, but of the.iij. hole yeres wherin he preached and miracled before his death. a1656 J. Hales (1677) iv. 169 Their undaunted Fortitude, their power of Miracling. the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [verb (reflexive)] > be revealed by a miracle a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. ii. 29 I'me not their Father, yet who this should bee, Doth myracle it selfe, lou'd before mee. View more context for this quotation 1829 Sept. 201 Do you mark all the rags there above on the bush? these are tokens of cures that have been miracled here. 1867 Aug. 180/2 His imagination was never more vivid..than when it miracled into form the terror and pity and beauty of Lear. 1882 R. H. Horne 114 Things shall be found, made, miracled (so seeming) By men who starve 'midst laughter at their scheming. 1990 Spring 130 At times Schreber was convinced that all the people he saw had been ‘miracled up’ or ‘fleetingly improvised’ by ‘rays’ in order to deceive him. 1896 J. Burgess 24 I'll laern dee ta fling staens an mirakkle da pör bits o geese! 1906 T. P. Ollason 18 Get up an' be aff hom' ta dy midder, doo scamp, afore I marackle dee. 1924 T. Manson 207 Da bairn is maybe been mirakled i da inside, sprung himsell, fur aa at we ken. 1933 J. Gray 27 ‘Lass, lass,’ says I, ‘doo's shuurly mirakilled desell.’ 1979 J. J. Graham 53/1 Mirackle, to injure severely. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?a1160 v.1548 |
