Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Miraculous or marvelous acts; feats of magic or legerdemain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
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- noun
Feats oflegerdemain , ormagical performances .
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Examples
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Also, to this day there's a great deal we don't know about the fine points of Far Eastern thaumaturgics.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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Not to mention the technologies we can bring to bear, everything from exorcism to clean thaumaturgics.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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If he stayed by his wish to become a paleontologist, he'd have to master some spooky thaumaturgics, but I felt confident it wouldn't faze him.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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Such are the thaumaturgics of mythologic philosophy.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Thus we see that out of mythologic philosophy, as branches of the great tree itself, there grow ancientism, theistic society, spiritism, thaumaturgics, mythic tales, and religion.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Spiritism is more clearly defined, and spirits become eternal; mythologic tales are codified, and sacred books are written; divination for the result of amorous intrigue has become the prophecy of immortality, and thaumaturgics is formulated as the omnipresent, the omnipotent, the omniscient -- the infinite.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Hence, the older the story the greater its thaumaturgics.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868
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