单词 | magnalia |
释义 | † magnalian. Obsolete. With plural agreement. Great or wonderful things; marvels (esp. of nature). Also rarely in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder > marvels collectively wonderc1220 admirables1547 magnalia1650 the wonderful1727 marvellous1741 mirabilia1821 marvel1866 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Ivv Suche like Magnalia dei..procede onely from God. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §525 The Transmutation of Plants, one into another, is inter Magnalia Naturæ: for the Transmutation of Species is..pronounced Impossible.] 1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 33 The Mulberrry shooting forth later then all other Trees by much, may by this means of that early appearance give day-light to this and other more abstruse Magnalia. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV in Poems (1878) IV. 27 These the Magnalia, wch but some can find In Nature, Earth by Earth only Calcin'd. 1657 J. Howell in W. Rumsey Organon Salutis sig. b4v In Natures Cabinet,..there are divers Mysteries and Magnalia's yet unknown. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 82 He made no discovery of the Magnalia of Art or Nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1650 |
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