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thaumaturgus

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.

Noun

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thaumaturgus (plural thaumaturguses or thaumaturgusses or thaumaturgi)

  1. 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.

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