adjective #3464

mīrĭfĭcus

fem. mīrĭfĭca · neut. mīrĭfĭcum

mirus-facio

causing wonder; admiration, wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, singular, strange

causing wonder or admiration, wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, singular, strange (class.).

Of persons: voramus litteras cum homine mirifico ... Dionysio, Cic. Att. 4, 11,… •

Of persons: voramus litteras cum homine mirifico ... Dionysio, Cic. Att. 4, 11, 1: homo in doctrinis mirificus, Gell. 6, 15, 2.—

wonderfully, marvellously, extraordinarily, exceedingly •••

Of things: turris mirificis operibus exstructa, Caes. B. C. 3, 112: pugnae, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1: convicium, id. ib. 1, 14, 5: voluptas, id. Fam. 3, 11, 3: studium, id. ib. 14, 3, 3: mirificas gratias agere, id. Att. 14, 13, 5: sed te mirificam in latebram conjecisti, id. Div. 2, 20, 47.—Sup., in two forms: mirificissimum facinus, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 32: mirificentissima potentia, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 42 init.—Hence, adv.: mīrĭfĭcē, wonderfully, marvellously, extraordinarily, exceedingly (class.): delectari, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4: dolere, id. Att. 2, 19, 1: diligere, id. N. D. 1, 21, 58: laudare, id. Fam. 3, 11, 3: prodesse, Plin. 31, 8, 44, § 97.

Perseus ID: n29228 Key: mirificus