Mirific

1681, Arthur Bury, The Constant Communicant, Oxford: Stephen Botton, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 192, The Spirit of Grace, in whose mirific power our Savior first, and his Apostls afterward, proclaimed the Gospel […]

See the very intelligible Theorist is at hand in our Necessity, to teach the impetuous Motions of mirifick Exultation.

[…] there is the Doctor, whom Mrs. P. does not condescend to visit: that man educates a mirific family, and is loved by the poor for miles round;

a carpet overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers, and the walls overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers of another but equally mirific plant

In as blasé a tone as I could manage in such mirific circumstances, I murmured, “Ma’am, if you would care to glance out of the window—over there—you will see a flying saucer.”