Marvel: Galatians 1:6 KJV [6] I MARVEL that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: M‘ARVEL, noun [French merveille; Irish miorbhaille; Italian maraviglia; Spanish maravilla; Portugese maravilha; Armoric marz; Latin mirabilis, wonderful, from miror, Chaldee Syriac demar, to wonder, Latin demiror. We have the primary sense in the Armoric miret, to stop, hold, keep, guard, ninder; for to wonder, admire or be astonished, is to stop, to hold, to be fixed, which exactly expresses the fact. The Russian zamirayu, to be astonished, is the same word with a prefix, and from miryu, to pacify or appease, that is, to stop, to allay. From the same root or family, probably, we have moor, to moor a ship, Spanish Portugese amarar, French amarrer, to moor, and demeurer, to dwell or abide. So also Latin mora, delay, and perhaps morior, Welsh maru, to die, murus, a wall, demur, &c. Class Mr. No. 32.] 1. A wonder; that which arrests the attention and causes a person to stand or gaze, or to pause. [This word is nearly obsolete, or at least little used in elegant writings.] 2. Wonder; admiration. Marvel of Peru, a plant of the genus Mirabilis.
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