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Definition of Thaumaturgist
1. Noun. One who practices magic or sorcery.
Specialized synonyms: Enchanter, Exorciser, Exorcist, Magus, Sorceress, Witch Doctor
Generic synonyms: Occultist
Specialized synonyms: Cagliostro, Count Alessandro Di Cagliostro, Giuseppe Balsamo
Derivative terms: Magic, Necromancy, Wizard, Wizardly
Definition of Thaumaturgist
1. n. One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker.
Definition of Thaumaturgist
1. Noun. A performer of miracles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thaumaturgist
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thaumaturgist
Literary usage of Thaumaturgist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu by Mādhava, Edward Byles Cowell, Archibald Edward Gouch (1908)
"If you say: Some jars and some plants are made of clay, and spring from seeds,
while others arise from the bare volition of the thaumaturgist; ..."
2. The American Presbyterian Review by Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood (1867)
""Let a thaumaturgist," says Renan,* "present himself to morrow with testimony
sufficiently important to merit our attention ; let him announce that he is ..."
3. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1919)
"The Christian thaumaturgist once having broken all association with the Mysteries
of the temples and with "these schools so renowned for magic," described ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"From a sincere, though often ignorant, leader of his flock he became only too
frequently a mere thaumaturgist, healing the sick and performing other ..."
5. The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan (1864)
"Let a thaumaturgist present himself to-morrow with testimony sufficiently important
to merit our attention ; let him announce that he is able, ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1909)
"From a sincere, though often ignorant, leader of his flock he became only too
frequently a mere thaumaturgist, healing the sick and performing other ..."
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