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miraculous, a.|mɪˈrækjʊləs|
Also 6 maryculousse, miraculus, 6–7 myraculous(e.
[ad. F. miraculeux, ad. med.L. mīrāculōs-us, f. mīrācul-um miracle n.: see -ous.]
1. a. Of the nature of a miracle; produced or effected by miracle; beyond the agency of natural laws; supernatural.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. ii. 366 These operacyons dyuynes and maryculousses. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 147 A most myraculous worke in this good King. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxvi. 231 The miraculous power of foretelling what God would bring to passe. 1671Milton Samson 587 Why else this strength Miraculous yet remaining in those locks? 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts xxiii. (1739) 287 The miraculous Gifts which the Apostles received. 1856Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xvi. 3 Men who had no sense for the miraculous and supernatural. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. v. (1885) 156 They profess to have miraculous power.
†b. Concerned with miracles. Obs.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 176 Ihon, archebusshop of Yorcke... went into Beverlaye,..where at this daye he is remembered with miraculus memorie. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xix. 106 Of whom they do say..miraculous fable. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 868/1 The testimony by which the miracles of our Lord are accredited is..distinguished, by its strength, from that which supports any other miraculous accounts.
2. transf. and hyperbolically. (Cf. miracle n. 2.) Resembling a miracle; so extraordinary as to appear supernatural; marvellous; astonishing.
In some of the earlier instances the sense may be directly based on the primary sense of L. miraculum, ‘object of astonishment’.
1573(title) A letter sent by a Gentleman of England to his frende contayning a confutation of a French mans errors in the report of the myraculous starre now shyninge. 1601Holland Pliny II. 585 The miraculous workes that Q. Marcius Rex performed. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 127 Neither is it miraculous amongst them to see a manne live above an hundred and thirty or forty yeares. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 623 For Murther, though it haue no tongue, will speake With most myraculous Organ. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 75 [A mountain] on whose Summit was a miraculous Piece hewed out of solid Stone. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 150 'Twas communicated to me..as a miraculous Experiment, against bleeding at the Nose. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 395 Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, ‘That all men are about to live’: For ever on the brink of being born.
b. (See quot. 1965.) dial.
1879F. M. Fetherston Oops & Doons T. Goorkrodger 27, I say when a man's drunk, he's miraculus and mad. 1925L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 142 Miraculous has changed its meaning to ‘very drunk’. 1965Sc. Nat. Dict. VI. 286/1 Miraculous, in a stupefied or incapable condition, esp. from drink, very intoxicated.
3. a. Of things (formerly also of persons): Having the power to work miracles; wonder-working.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vi. 334 In takne of his rare and excellent halynes,..he was miraculous, canonizet and reknet with the haly number. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 86 His word is more then the miraculous Harpe. 1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 29 He miraculous did heale them all. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 132 A certain Sacrilegious Rogue took an opportunity to steal away this Miraculous Picture. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 247 The miraculous tomb of St. Fælix. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 79 The flask is always supposed to contain the miraculous oil which flowed under her shrine. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 6 Some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.
b. In names of plants: miraculous berry, in Western tropical Africa, applied by the English residents to the fruit of Sideroxylon dulcificum, from its extraordinary power of rendering sour substances intensely sweet (Treas. Bot. 1866); miraculous fruit, the fruit of Thaumatococcus or Phrynium Danielli, native of the Sudan (Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 1887, p. 428).
†4. As adv.
1766Gentl. Mag. July 331/1 The scenes,..Shifting backwards and forwards,..And painted miraculous fine. |