thaumaturgia

The days of _thaumaturgia_ were passed, and in place of discussing demonology and temptation, an appetite for subtle dogma prevailed.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

But, on the other hand, there has certainly been no age in which persons of critical and inquisitive intellect -- seeking to divest what is genuine in these apparent vagaries of Nature from the cheats of venal impostors and the exaggeration of puzzled witnesses -- have more soberly endeavoured to render such exceptional thaumaturgia of philosophical use, in enlarging our conjectural knowledge of the complex laws of being -- sometimes through physiological, sometimes through metaphysical research.

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838