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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Marvelous

/mär'-vəl-əs/ · Mar·vel·ous · IPA /ˈmɑɹvələs/
01 a. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
  1. 1.
    Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
    “This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” — Ps. cxiii. 23.
  2. 2.
    Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief.
    “The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods.” — Pope.
Phrases & compounds
The marvelous — that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable.
Syn. Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible.
-- Marvelous, Wonderful. We speak of a thing as wonderful when it awakens our surprise and admiration; as marvelous when it is so much out of the ordinary course of things as to seem nearly or quite incredible.