miracle Copy link • miracle: mīrācŭlum (anything calculated to excite wonder): v. wonder (subs.), marvel. (N.B.The terms employed in Vulg. to denote the Christian m.s, are signa, prodigia, virtutes = σημεῖα, τέρατα, δυνάμεις]; cf. Act. ii. 22, etc. but Hier., August. and modern writers use miracula as gen. term: see Trench, N. T. Syn. II. p. 177.) See also prodigy.