mirific

American  

[mahy-rif-ik] / maɪˈrɪf ɪk /

adjective

1. working miracles or wonders.

2. causing a feeling of wonder or astonishment.

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Example Sentences

As the place was distant, and the road beset with danger, the knights of the Temple took upon themselves the task of fetching the mirific fluid to the part of the coast still held by the Latins, and accommodating pilgrims with it, and the coffers of the order were largely replenished by this pious traffic.

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Yet the learned hold that the true mirific name is lost, the word “Jehovah” dating only from the Masoretic innovation.

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While drinking it, I can close my eyes, being of an imaginative nature, and permit its flavor to bring back memories of ever-blessed tonnelles by the Seine, redolent of fried gudgeons and mirific omelettes, and felicitous with gay laughter.

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Being a loyal little soul, the child retained his affection for Auntie Anne, but he was swept off his little feet by his mirific parent.

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Whether he led them in person to battle is not mentioned; though he could hardly adopt the excuse of Friar John, who, as Rabelais tells us, made a liberal distribution of mirific amulets to his soldiers, assuring them that those who had firm faith in their efficacy would come to no harm.

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