Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to miracles or wonders; having the characteristics of a miracle; miraculous; also, in contempt, magical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles.
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Examples
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Many of these letters represent him in correspondence with the singular men who shared his own half poetic, half scientific turn of mind, with that impressibility towards what one might call the thaumaturgic elements in nature which has often made men dupes, and which is certainly an element in the somewhat atrabiliar mental complexion of that age in England.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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A self-replicating, ambient thaumaturgic construct!
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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How did you get your hands on a vintage ambient thaumaturgic construct like that?
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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“You still have that ambient thaumaturgic construct?” the asura asked.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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A self-replicating, ambient thaumaturgic construct!
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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“You still have that ambient thaumaturgic construct?” the asura asked.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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A self-replicating, ambient thaumaturgic construct!
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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How did you get your hands on a vintage ambient thaumaturgic construct like that?
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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How did you get your hands on a vintage ambient thaumaturgic construct like that?
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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“You still have that ambient thaumaturgic construct?” the asura asked.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
trainwreck commented on the word thaumaturgic
Came across this word in J.M. Robert's Penguin History of the World. Apparently it is the adjectival form of a thaumaturge or thaumaturgy, which in turn is someone who practices magic and/or performs miracles, or that art thereof. The use I found it in was referring to the thaumaturgic aspect of Mid-8th century Frankish history, who believed themselves to have a some what thaumaturgic ethnogenesis. It has a supposed proto-indo-european origin itself.
January 5, 2009