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Feb. 18, 2015
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\THAW-muh-turj\
noun
1. a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
Quotes
Whether a 'Thaumaturge' can raise the dead or not would be determined nowadays, M. Renan thinks, by a formal 'commission of physicians, physiologists, chemists, and critics,' who are to 'choose their corpse,' appoint the place and circumstances 'of the operation, and lay down a system of precautions' to guard against imposture.
-- Henry Rogers, "Critique on M. Renan's 'Vie de Jésus,'" Reason and Faith, 1866
Origin
Thaumaturge is a back formation from the adjective thaumaturgic. It stems from the Greek words thaumatos meaning "wonder, wondrous thing" and ergon meaning "work." Thaumaturge entered English in the early 1700s.
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