Middle English Dictionary Entry
mīrāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mīrāble adj. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Wonderful, marvelous, miraculous; also, as surname.
Associated quotations
- (1301) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 2162 : Henrico Mirable.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)360/162 : A, myrable god, meche is thy myth.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)41 : Off my loue to speke, yt ys myrable.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.31 : Tofore of oure Ladye herde ȝe the swete wedding; Now fylowes it for til here hire mirable [L mirabilem] Conceyving.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.162 : This was thi joye..Thi puarpure wombe childyng godson intacte and cloos..in the mountayn mirable [L mirabili] revelid to Danyel.