Obs. [L.] ‘The wonderful water, prepared of cloves, galangals, cubebs, mace, cardomums, nutmegs, ginger, and spirit of wine, digested twenty-four hours, then distilled.’ J.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. i. 24. Take … Plague-water and Aqua Mirabilis.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., viii. Gin ye take a morning’s draught, let it be aqua mirabilis.
