miraclist (miraklist)

One who records miracles. [ miracle + -ist .] Heare the miraclist report it, who himselfe was an actor. Declaration of Popish Impostures (1603). (Nares.) miraculizet (mi-rak'ū-līz), v. t. [ miracu lum , a miracle (see miracle ) , + -ize .] To represent as a miracle; attribute to supernatural power. Shaftesbury . miraculous (mi-rak'u-lus), a . [ miraculeux = Sp. milagroso = Pg. milagroso , miraculoso = = It. miracolo = D. G. It. miracoloso, Dan. Sw. mirakel, Be not offended, nature's miracle , Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 54. He has faults, Belike, though he be such a miracle. Shirley, Love's Cruelty, i. 1. I have beheld the Ephesian's miracle Its columns strew the wilderne . Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 153. How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! Tennyson, Maud, xxiv. 1. 2. An effect in nature not attributable to any of the recognized operations of nature nor to the act of man, but indicative of superhuman power, and serving as a sign or witne thereof; a wonderful work, manifesting a power superior to the ordinary forces of nature. That Cytee tok Josue, be myracle of God and comm an dement of the Aungel, and destroyed it and cursed it, and alle hem that bylled it azen. Mandeville , Travels, p. 98. Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him. John iii. 2. Miracles have been wrought to convert idolaters and the superstitious, because no light of nature extend eth to declare the will and true worship of God. raculose ), wonderful, The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Emerson, Nature. 2. Of the nature of a miracle; working miracles; performed by, involving, or exhibiting a power beyond the ordinary agency of natural laws; supernatural. Behind the high altar they have what they call a mirac ulous picture of the virgin Mary, which, they say, was painted by St. Luke, but it is not to be seen. Pococke , Description of the East, II. 1. 133. Generation after generation the province of the miracu lous has contracted, and the circle of scepticism has expanded. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 104. IMG:content-0693.png:[blocks in formation] Except themselues had beene almost miraculously skil- full in Languages. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 47. The Sickne is miraculously decreased in this City, and Suburbs. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 24. Some cheats have pretended to cure diseases miracu- lously . Porteus , Works, II. xiv. miraculousne (mi-rak'ū-lus-nes), n . The quality of being miraculous. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 152. To speak properly, there is not one miracle greater than another, they being the extraordinary effects of the hand of God, to which all things are of an equal facility. mirador (mir-a-dōr'), n.; pl. miradores (mir-adō'res). [Sp. (> Pg. miradouro = F. miradore ), Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, 1. 17. vedere or gallery commanding an extensive A miracle may be accurately defined a transgre ion of a law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. Hume , Human Understanding, Of Miracles, x., note. What are miracles ? They are the acts and manifestations of a Spiritual Power in the universe, superior to the powers and laws of matter. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 248. The definition of a miracle as a violation of the laws of nature is, in reality, an employment of language which, in the face of the matter, cannot be justified. Huxley , Hume, p. 129. 31. A miraculous story; a legend. Whan seyd was al this miracle , every man As sobre was, that wonder was to se. Chaucer, Prol. to Sir Thopas, 1. 1. Meantime your valiant son, who had before Gain'd fame, rode round to every mirador . Dryden, Conquest of Granada, I. i. 1. When he departed from the Alhambra, she betook her self to her mirador , overlooking the vega, whence she watched the army, as it went, in shining order, along the road leading to Loxa. Irving , Granada, p. 107. mirage (mi-räzh'), n. [ mirage (= Pg. mi- ragem = It. miragio ), 4. In the middle ages, one of a cla of spec or inverted images are produced. The requisite tacles or dramatic representations exhibiting the lives of the saints or other sacred subjects; a miracle-play, somewhat resembling that still held at Obe rammer gau in Bavaria. Compare mystery1, 4. At marketts & myracles we medleth vs nevere. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 107. The theatrical exhibitions in London, in the twelfth century, were called Miracles , because they consisted of sacred plays, or representations of the miracles wrought by the holy confe ors. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 227. To a miracle, wonderfully; admirably; beyond conception: as, he did his part to a miracle.