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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prodigy \Prod"i*gy\, n.; pl {Prodigies}. [ L. prodigium pro
before + (perh.) a word appearing in adagium adage: cf F.
prodige. Cf {Adage}. ]
1. Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of
nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as
eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee,
as a sure foregoing sign. --Milton.
2. Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or
astonishment; a marvel; as a prodigy of learning.
3. A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal
development; a monster. --B. Jonson
Syn: Wonder; miracle; portent; marvel; monster.
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