Meanings
nounmirabilary (plural mirabilaries)
plural mirabilaries
- obsoleterareSomeone or something that narrates wonderful things, or collects wonders.
The use of this work, honoured with a precedent in Aristotle, is nothing less than to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits, as the manner of mirabilaries is to do […]
1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II
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