mirabile dictu

[ mee-rah-bi-le dik-too; English mi-rab-uh-lee dik-too, -tyoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Latin.

mirabile dictu

/ mɪˈræbɪleɪ ˈdɪktuː /

(no translation)

A page and a quarter (mirabile dictu) is devoted to a shoemakers' strike with no definite result.

Mr Bowles—mirabile dictu—backs his old schoolmaster against the goddess.

The family doesn't care when it has its dinner, and, mirabile dictu, the cook doesn't care either!

But, mirabile dictu, during the passage they had managed to get a wax impression of it!

It was further resolved, (p. 85) mirabile dictu, by 17 votes against 13, to surrender to the English forces!

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