thaumaturgic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
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having the powers of a thaumaturge.
Etymology
Origin of thaumaturgic
1560–70; < New Latin thaumatūrgicus, equivalent to thaumatūrg ( us ) wonder worker (< Greek thaumatourgós, equivalent to thaumat- thaumato- + -ourgos; see -urgy, -ous) + -icus -ic
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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
These verses are a sufficient evidence of the care taken bv Moses to prevent the people inspecting too closely his thaumaturgic tabernacle.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
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 Bernard Shaw
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