mirabilary
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
mirabilary (plural mirabilaries)
- (obsolete) One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II:
- The use of this work, honoured with a precedent in Aristotle, is nothing less than to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits, as the manner of mirabilaries is to do […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mirabilary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)