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thaumaturgy|ˈθɔːmətɜːdʒɪ|
[ad. Gr. θαυµατουργία wonder-working, conjuring, f. thaumato- + -εργος working: see -y. So F. thaumaturgie (1878 in Dict. Acad.).]
The working of wonders; miracle-working; magic.
1727Bailey vol. II, Thaumaturgy [1730 (folio) also Thaumaturgicks],..any Art that does, or seems to do Wonders, or, as it is defin'd by Dr. Dee [cf. thaumaturgic n. a], a mathematical Science, which gives a certain Rule for the making of strange Works to be perceiv'd by the Sense, yet to be greatly wonder'd at. 1778Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xv. (1840) II. 178 This art, with others of the experimental kind, the philosophers of those times were fond of adapting to the purposes of thaumaturgy. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. viii, A World of Miracles, wherein all fabled or authentic Thaumaturgy, and feats of Magic, were outdone. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 38 Magic,—both black and white,—thaumaturgy, and necromancy. |