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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.
1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.
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