Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A thaumaturge or thaumaturgist: used especially as a title of Gregory Thaumaturgus (bishop of Nescæsarea in Pontus in the third century), from the numerous and wonderful miracles ascribed to him.

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

  • noun A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

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  • noun A miracle worker.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek wonder-working.

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    The secular thaumaturgus.

    February 23, 2015