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

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

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

Miss Sally, he had perceived early, excited in the hill-farm people a species of awe, as though she were on a par with the circus, thaumaturgic, almost too good to be true.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)

Might not a more thorough and scientific seminary for this purpose be established than any we now have—theologic, thaumaturgic, theosophic, or other variety?

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various