Definition of "mirific" []

• Working wonders; wonderful. (adjective)

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• "For instance, 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: and gives them port-wine for physic and medicine, gratis."
• "It was the same Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily:"
• "I vow and swear by the handle of my paper lantern that it was a gallant, a mirific, nay, a most admirable piece."