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See Wondrous. [Obs.] They be wonders glad thereof. Sir T. More.

Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.

tness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. Bacon.

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. Johnson

castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor.

To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.] The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak.

To report widely or honorably. The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders. Milton.

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

Working wonders; wonderful.

transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.

es. See the Note under Science, n., 4. -- Seven stars (Astron.), the Pleiades. -- Seven wonders of the world. See under Wonders. -- Seven-year apple (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub (Genipa clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. -- Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuber…

n of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. Rom. xv. 19. It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. Ex. iv. 8.…

trike and surprise us most on the first view. Atterbury. They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. Pope.

One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. Carlyle.

s of saltpeter. Evelyn. In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. South.

to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide. [I] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear. Piers Plowman.

ylon, the wonder of all tongues." Milton. To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon. I am as a wonder unto many. Ps. lxxi. 7. Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

One who performs wonders, or miracles.

Doing wonders or surprising things.

Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things. [Obs.] Shak.