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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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82 words match “DERF”

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

ppiness; 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.

MARVELOUS a. 2 definitions

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

MARVELOUSLY adv.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

MARVELOUSNESS n.

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

ses; 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.

MIRACLE n. 2 definitions

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

Supernatural; wonderful.

MIRIFIC; MIRIFICAL a.

Working wonders; wonderful.

Wonderful. [Obs.]

A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable. And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

iven to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is. ix. 6.

row compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. Shak.