2. To soil with mud or foul matter.

Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Shak.

Mire, v. i. To stick in mire. Shak.

{ Mi*rif"ic (?), Mi*rif"ic*al (?), } a. [L. mirificus; mirus wonderful

+ -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.] Working wonders; wonderful.

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