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Miracle, n. Also: mira(c)kle, -ell, mirakil(l, -cul, mirracil, myracle, -(c)kle, -kil(l, -kyl(l, -cul(e; meracle, -kil(l, -kile, meraikill; maracle, -kle. [ME. miracle (1154), myracle, -kil, mer(a)cle (Cursor M.), OF. miracle, L. mīrāculum lit. ‘object of wonder’, miracle.] A miracle.(1) 1375 Barb. xvii. 875 (E).
This Thomas … Was saynct and myrakillis did a1400 Leg. S. iv. 56.
Myraculis gret he wrocht Ib. xxi. 974.
That myrakil cane ces c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 422.
Myraculis two Hapned amonges thame sodeynly c1420 Wynt. v. 191.
Thir myrakyllis wryttyn yhe ma red In till a buk off his barnehed Ib. 4762. Ib. vii. 3142. c1460 Thewis Wysmen 7. a1500 Henr. III. 147/37. c1500-50 Brevis Cronica 324.
Sanct Mungew … schew miracles in Scotland c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 24.
Be micht of the mirakle 1513 Doug. viii. iii. 84. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. xvi. marg.
Mirracilis 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 262.
Sum said it wes ane manifest myrakle 1551 Hamilton Cat. 54.
Miraculis 1549 Compl. 4/15.
Be ane diuyne miracle 1563-72 Ferg. Tracts 8.
A wonder or a myrackle 1596 Dalr. I. 228/26.
Mirackles 16.. in Symson Descr. Galloway 112.
The mirackellis of St. Niniane(b) a1400 Leg. S. xix. 326.
Syne thi meracle thu let me se a1578 Pitsc. I. 257. h. of ch.
Ane meraikill seine in the kirk of Linlythgow(c) a1400 Leg. S. xii. 334.
Thire men … saw all Cristis maraklys gret & small a1578 Pitsc. II. 40/29.
Quhilk was appeirantlie to be ane manifest maracle(2) 1375 Barb. xvii. 825 (C).
That wes mar To myrakill of God almychty a1400 Leg. S. ii. 279.
Be grete merakilland mycht Ib. xxvii. 618.
He dowis merakile opynly c1420 Wynt. vi. 1522.
Be myrakill a1500 Prestis of Peblis 415.
How sould he kyth mirakil and he sa euil? c1515 Asl. MS. I. 316/6.
Be mirakle c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2428.
Throuch myrakle of the gret God