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miraculously, adv.|mɪˈrækjʊləslɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a miraculous manner; by or as by miracle; in a miraculous degree.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cxcvi. 201 Any whyle they were there in great argument for this matyer..a rode there beynge..spake myraculously and said, that Dunstans waye was good and trewe. 1554Act 1 & 2 Phil. & Mary c. 10 §4 He hathe hitherto miraculouslye preserved the Quenes Mati⊇ from many greate and imminent perills and dangers. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 40 Lochbroune in commendatione has the first place, copious in herring miracolouslie. 1656Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 203 note, An elegie on the miraculously learned bishop of Armagh [Usher]. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 236 Preserved miraculously for two hundred years. 1885Manch. Exam. 6 Apr. 5/2 Savages ..prove almost miraculously quick in hearing and seeing. |