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Definition of Miraculous

1. Adjective. Being or having the character of a miracle.

2. Adjective. Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention. "A providential recovery"

Definition of Miraculous

1. a. Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.

Definition of Miraculous

1. Adjective. Pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain. ¹

2. Adjective. By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god (only used when positive). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Miraculous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miraculous

miracidia miracidial miracidium miracle miracle-worship miracle man miracle play miracle worker miracle workers miracles

miraculin miraculize miraculized miraculizes miraculizing miraculous (current term) miraculous food miraculously miraculousness mirador

miradors mirage miragelike mirages mirandize mirandized mirandizes mirandizing mirapinnid mirapinnids

Literary usage of Miraculous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We might also mention the miraculous Host that bled when touched by profane ... In 1792 the miraculous host disappeared; it was believed to have been found ..."

2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"I HAVE told in the text the tale of the miraculous warning given to Harold by the ... But when the notion of a miraculous interposition had once got afloat, ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"For whatever explanation may be offered of the miraculous element in Elijah's life, it must obviously be one that accounts not for a few miraculous ..."

4. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"THE DOCTRINE OF SACRED SCRIPTURE AS RELATED TO THE miraculous CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE. IN no other class of the contents of Sacred ..."

5. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... and there was a great calm. THE miraculous COMPASS. Equipped with their compass, these ancients appear to have had the advantage of Noah. ..."

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