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From Late Latin mirac, mirach, from Arabic مراق (marāqq), from رق (raqqa, "to be soft").

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  • "... in astronomy, a bright fixed star, of the second magnitude, in the girdle of the constellation Andromeda, marked β in our catalogues...."

    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 280

    October 13, 2008