Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as thaumaturge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker; a thaumaturge.

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  • noun A performer of miracles.

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  • noun one who practices magic or sorcery

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Examples

  • They are there to protect the rule of law itself, and thus protect all of us, from tyranny. thaumaturgist says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Miranda Rights 2010

  • May 5th, 2006 at 8:42 am thaumaturgist 40, FIGMO is also another military term for short-timers: “F–k it, got my orders.”

    Firedoglake » Carpe Diem 2006

  • Mr. Maydig started violently at the change, and stood looking from the thaumaturgist to the bowl of flowers.

    The Man Who Could Work Miracles Herbert George 2003

  • But the Lady Beata was no thaumaturgist; only a loving woman, standing where science had failed, translating another's desperate need from her own depths of sympathy -- arresting the oncoming shadow because of her faith and her great love.

    The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

  • Solomon is therefore represented as a thaumaturgist, and while not a single example is given of the proverbs ascribed to him, his exploits as a miracle-monger are extolled.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • With Manuel they were particularly high and mighty, assuring him that he was only a prosperous and affected pseudo-magician, and that the harm done by the self-styled thaumaturgist was apt to be very great indeed.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • He armed, and girded himself with Caliburn, drank a couple of bottles of wine, put on the shirt of Nessus over all, and then went to seek this thaumaturgist.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Solomon is therefore represented as a thaumaturgist, and while not a single example is given of the proverbs ascribed to him, his exploits as a miracle-monger are extolled.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • The fame of St. Anthony's miracles has never diminished, and even at the present day he is acknowledged as the greatest thaumaturgist of the times.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Then the Indian threw a rope about it, and twisted and looped the rope with manipulations like those of a professional thaumaturgist.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

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