mirificus

mīrĭfĭcus, a, um, adj. [mirus-facio], causing wonder or admiration, wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, singular, strange (class.).

I.

Of persons:

voramus litteras cum homine mirifico... Dionysio,

Cic. Att. 4, 11, 1:

homo in doctrinis mirificus,

Gell. 6, 15, 2.—

II.

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.