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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.
Noun
thaumaturgus (plural thaumaturguses or thaumaturgusses or thaumaturgi)
- A miracle worker.
- Synonym: thaumaturgist
1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan:If to-morrow a thaumaturgus present himself with credentials sufficiently important to be discussed, and announce himself as able, say, to raise the dead, what would be done? A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.
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