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A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this. M. Arnold.

Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.

e in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. the felicities of her wonderful reign. Atterbury.

Singular; wonderful; extraordinary. [Obs.] -- n.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax.

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.

senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. Having wich wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. Tatler.

Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20.

One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.

Wonderful; admirable. [Obs.] Shak.

A wonder or wonderful thing. That miracle and queen of genus. Shak.

Supernatural; wonderful.

Working wonders; wonderful.

Wonderful. [Obs.]