
Noah Webster
Marvelous
M'ARVELOUS, adjective
1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise.
This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalms 118:1.
2. Surpassing credit; incredible.
3. The marvelous in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable.
4. Formerly used adverbially for wonderfully, exceedingly.