mirable

English

Etymology

From Latin mirabilis, from mirari (“to wonder”). Compare Old French mirable. See marvel.

Adjective

mirable (comparative more mirable, superlative most mirable)

(obsolete) wonderful; admirable
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
  Not Neoptolemus so mirable.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mirable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Ambriel, Mirabel, balmier, lambier, remblai

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