thaumaturgic

American  

[thaw-muh-tur-jik] / ˌθɔ məˈtɜr dʒɪk /

Often thaumaturgical

adjective

1. pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.

2. having the powers of a thaumaturge.

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Etymology

Origin of thaumaturgic

1560–70; < New Latin thaumatūrgicus, equivalent to thaumatūrg ( us ) wonder worker (< Greek thaumatourgós, equivalent to thaumat- thaumato- + -ourgos; -urgy, -ous ) + -icus -ic

Example Sentences

There are no levels, but there is a more natural progression system based on skills and thaumaturgic powers.

From Forbes • Nov. 8, 2012

Men & women came to hear Doreal talk of "onement with the universal mind" or "full illumination," and to be bound together by the "thaumaturgic power that was exercised by Christ and his disciples."

From Time Magazine Archive

Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits.

From Time Magazine Archive

We do not wonder that in these translating thaumaturgic exploits God and Devil get mistaken for each other.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

Luke shows all a romancer's thoughtlessness about miracles; he regards them as "signs": that is, as proofs of the divinity of the person performing them, and not merely of thaumaturgic powers.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion by Shaw, Bernard