a. and sb. [f. as prec. + -IC.]
A. adj. 1. That works, or has the power of working, miracles or marvels; wonder-working.
1680. Dial. between Pope & Phanatick, 11. The Thaumatergick word of Protestant Religion have done our Cause such eminent service.
1818. G. S. Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, I, 356. The thaumaturgic and inspired prophet Moses.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. iv. The grand thaumaturgic art of Thought.
1889. Pater, G. de Latour, 65. The witchery, the thaumaturgic powers, of Virgil, or … of Shakespeare.
2. Of, pertaining to, or involving thaumaturgy.
1825. Carlyle, Schiller, II. (1873), 73. Various thaumaturgic feats.
1894. Stevenson, Lett. to Miss A. Boodle, 14 July. Never expect ... thaumaturgic conversions.
B. sb. † a. The art of constructing marvelous or apparently magical devices. Obs.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., A j. Thaumaturgike, is that Art Mathematicall, which giueth certaine order to make straunge workes,… of men greatly to be wondred at.
b. pl. Thaumaturgics [see -IC 2]: feats of magic, conjuring tricks.
1730. [see THAUMATURGY, quot. 1727].
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 290. Mr. Moon, the very pearl of all conjurors,… with his ‘wonderful … exhibition of Thaumaturgics, Tachygraphy, mathematical operations, and magical deceptions.’
