Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
thaumaturgus .
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- noun Plural form of
thaumaturgus .
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Examples
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But it is too long a business to reckon up the several sorts of those men which the Greeks called thaumaturgi, that is to say, workers of things wonderful; and yet these do all they do by their own single dexterity.
Leviathan 2007
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But it is too long a business to reckon up the several sorts of those men which the Greeks called thaumaturgi, that is to say, workers of things wonderful; and yet these do all they do by their own single dexterity.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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Yet these things the thaumaturgi did, and always to the excitement of the common people.
Chapter 17 2010
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The attraction of the magnet for iron was utilized by the thaumaturgi before it was interpreted by the natural philosophers.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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As oracles, priests, shamans, and _thaumaturgi_, children have had the respect and veneration of whole peoples, and they have often been the very mouth-piece of deity, standing within the very gates of heaven.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Yet these things the thaumaturgi did, and always to the excitement of the common people.
Chapter 17 1915
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There were what we Romans called the _thaumaturgi_.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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Yet these things the _thaumaturgi_ did, and always to the excitement of the common people.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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