[f. THAUMATURGY + -IST.] = THAUMATURGE.
1829. Carlyle, Misc., Germ. Playw. (1872), II. 91. No conjuror … can any longer pass for a true thaumaturgist. Ibid. (1837), Diamond Necklace, xvi. V. 190. Cagliostro, Thaumaturgist, Prophet and Arch-Quack.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. 530, note. The city was visited by the thaumaturgist Apollonius. Ibid. (1882), Early Chr., I. 116. Rome abounded in Oriental thaumaturgists and impostors.
So Thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy (Cent. Dict., 1891); Thaumaturgize v. intr., to act the thaumaturge, perform wonders.
1891. 19th Cent., Nov., 825. We find Father Anquieta thaumaturgising (if I may use the expression) on the slightest occasions.
