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mirabile dictu
[ mee-rah-bi-le dik-too; English mi-rab-uh-lee dik-too, -tyoo ]
Latin.
- strange to say; marvelous to relate.
mirabile dictu
/ mɪˈræbɪleɪ ˈdɪktuː /
(no translation)
- wonderful to relate; amazing to say
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A page and a quarter (mirabile dictu) is devoted to a shoemakers' strike with no definite result.
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Mr Bowles—mirabile dictu—backs his old schoolmaster against the goddess.
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The family doesn't care when it has its dinner, and, mirabile dictu, the cook doesn't care either!
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But, mirabile dictu, during the passage they had managed to get a wax impression of it!
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It was further resolved, (p. 85) mirabile dictu, by 17 votes against 13, to surrender to the English forces!
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