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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mar·vel·ous a.  [Written also marvellous.]
 1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
    This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.   --Ps. cxiii. 23.
 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief.
    The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods.   --Pope.
 The marvelous, that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable.
 Syn: -- Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible.
 Usage: -- Marvelous, Wonderful. We speak of a thing as wonderful when it awakens our surprise and admiration; as marvelous when it is so much out of the ordinary course of things as to seem nearly or quite incredible.
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