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‖ mirabilia, n. pl. Hist.|mɪrəˈbɪlɪə|
[L., neut. pl. of mirabilis wonderful.]
Wonders, miracles.
1829I. Taylor (title) Mirabilia; or, The wonders of nature and art: comprising three hundred of the most remarkable curiosities and phenomena in the known world. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 491 The legends of a later time..made of Alexander a supernatural hero and a wizard to whom all the conceivable mirabilia could be ascribed. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 117/2 Rome before Avignon is full of anecdotal material, mirabilia, legends, stories, accounts and similar aids to historical imagination. 1991UNESCO Courier Aug–Sept. 18/1 It was also a golden age for sea literature, travellers' tales and descriptions of wondrous things (‘Mirabilia’) in which the sea had a central part. 1993P. Ackroyd House of Doctor Dee 20, I, Doctor Dee, am come to dazzle your imagination with mirabilia; these are my shows and apparitions which draw the eye cunningly. |