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Aug. 25, 2016
mirabilia\mee-rah-BIL-i-ah\plural noun
1. Latin. marvels; miracles.
Quotes... I shall like still better to sing it with you when we meet.
That that is to be so soon, and under circumstances joyful, are among
the mirabilia of this changing world. To see and re-see such a cluster
of not indifferent persons as the programme for the wedding gives, will
be almost too large a bonne-bouche.
-- , George Eliot to Sara Hennell, September 16, 1843, in George
Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, 1885
Origin of mirabiliaMirabilia entered English in the early 1800s from
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