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noun
performing something amazing; performing miracles
1876Among My BooksThe men who walked in Cornelius Agrippa's visionary gardens had probably no more pleasurable emotion than that of a shallow wonder, or an equally shallow self-satisfaction in thinking they had hit upon the secret of the thaumaturgy…1897CyropaediaIt has its analogy in the admission of thaumaturgy on the part of religious teachers, and no doubt a good deal can be said for it.Labels: James Russell Lowell, Xenophon
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