miraculize
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Verb edit
miraculize (third-person singular simple present miraculizes, present participle miraculizing, simple past and past participle miraculized)
- (rare, transitive) To cause to seem to be a miracle.
- 1711, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
- whilst you are searching heaven and earth for prodigies, and studying how to miraculize every thing, you bring confusion on the world
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “miraculize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)