Obs. (Also as one word.) [f. WONDER sb. or a. Cf. G. wunderding, MSw. unders thing (see WONDERS a.).] A wonderful thing, wonder, marvel.
c. 1290. St. Brendan, 677, in S. Eng. Leg., 238. A wonder þing it was to seo … A so gret best a-boute wiende.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 1527. A wonder-þing now ȝe may here.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, cxviii[i]. 18. I sall bihalde wondirthyngis [Vulg. mirabilia] of þi laghe.
c. 1435. Torr. Portugale, 53. He sware … Ther wase told hym a wondyr-thyng In hys chambyr to nyght.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxxii. 2. This hindir nycht … To me wes tawld ane windir thing.
1546. J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 27. A wonder thing what thingis these olde thinges tell.
