thaumaturgic, a. and n.
(θɔːməˈtɜːdʒɪk)
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. That works, or has the power of working, miracles or marvels; wonder-working.
| 1680 Dial. between Pope & Phanatick 11 The Thaumatergick word of Protestant Religion have done our Cause such eminent service. 1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ I. 356 The thaumaturgic and inspired prophet Moses. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, The grand thaumaturgic art of Thought. 1889 Pater G. de Latour 65 The witchery, the thaumaturgic powers, of Virgil, or..of Shakespeare. |
2. Of, pertaining to, or involving thaumaturgy.
| 1825 Carlyle Schiller ii. (1873) 73 Various thaumaturgic feats. 1894 Stevenson Let. to Miss A. Boodle 14 July, Never expect..thaumaturgic conversions. |
B. n. † a. The art of constructing marvellous or apparently magical devices. Obs.
| 1570 Dee Math. Pref. A j, Thaumaturgike, is that Art Mathematicall, which giueth certaine order to make straunge workes,..of men greatly to be wondred at. |
b. pl. thaumaˈturgics [see -ic 2]: feats of magic, conjuring tricks.
| 1730 [see thaumaturgy, quot. 1727]. 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 290 Mr. Moon, the very pearl of all conjurors,..with his ‘wonderful..exhibition of Thaumaturgics, Tachygraphy, mathematical operations, and magical deceptions’. |