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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French merveillier; equivalent to merveile + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛrˈvæi̯lən/, /ˈmɛrvɛlən/
Verb
merveilen
- To be astonished or surprised; to witness the unexpected.
- To experience a marvel; to witness awe or wonder.
- To marvel at or to gaze upon wondrously; to view with astonishment.
- To induce, create, or result in astoundedness, awe, or astonishment
- To be confused or wondering; to witness an event that is hard to decipher.
- (rare) To view positively or kindly; to like.
- (rare, Late Middle English) To ponder actions or doings.
(in English), London:
Ihon Kingston,
→OCLC, book I,
folio 4, recto, paragraph 11:
I meruailled, why himſelf [Niccolò Leoniceno] did not practiſe Phiſike of whiche facultee he was a Doctour, and a publique reader: I auaile moche more, ſaieth he, in that I teach all thother Phiſiciãs [physicians].]
- (rare, Late Middle English) To freeze; to make still.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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