Thaumaturgus
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A miracle worker.
"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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More examples"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."
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.
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