Meaning of mirific | Babel Free

Definitions

Working wonders; wonderful.

literary

Examples

“1681, Arthur Bury, The Constant Communicant, Oxford: Stephen Botton, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 192, The Spirit of Grace, in whose mirific power our Savior first, and his Apostls afterward, proclaimed the Gospel […]”

“See the very intelligible Theorist is at hand in our Necessity, to teach the impetuous Motions of mirifick Exultation.”

“[…] there is the Doctor, whom Mrs. P. does not condescend to visit: that man educates a mirific family, and is loved by the poor for miles round;”

“a carpet overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers, and the walls overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers of another but equally mirific plant”

“In as blasé a tone as I could manage in such mirific circumstances, I murmured, “Ma’am, if you would care to glance out of the window—over there—you will see a flying saucer.””

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