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
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
Privately, in fact, Gaston had conceived of a poetry more thaumaturgic than could be anything of earlier standing than himself.
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater
Some of the most lurid of Alaskan legends deal with the thaumaturgic contests of rival medicine-men, and one judges that sleight of hand and even hypnotic suggestion were cultivated to a fine point.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
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