thaumaturgic
English
Adjective
thaumaturgic (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (Death of Louis XV):
- Lastly, powerfulest of all, least recognised of all, a Noblesse of Literature; without steel on their thigh, without gold in their purse, but with the “grand thaumaturgic faculty of Thought” in their head.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- It was the conferring of thaumaturgic powers. We can't do it now as rapidly as that.
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of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles
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