thaumaturgus
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.
Noun
editthaumaturgus (plural thaumaturguses or thaumaturgusses or thaumaturgi)
- A miracle worker.
- Synonym: thaumaturgist
- 1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus[1], translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan:
- 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.
Usage notes
edit- This is a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.
References
edit- “thaumaturgus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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