a. (sb.) [ad. L. theurgic-us, a. Gr. θεουργικός magical: see THEURGY and -IC. So F. théurgique (14th c.).] Of or pertaining to theurgy.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, X. ix. 371. Certaine Theurgike consecrations called Teletae.

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1718.  Bp. Hutchinson, Witchcraft, 35. A Golden Image of Jupiter, prepared by the Theurgic Art.

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1834.  Lytton, Pompeii, II. viii. [see GOETIC A.]. Ibid. (1861), Str. Story (1862), I. 313. Every secret … which the nobler, or theurgic, magic seeks to fathom.

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1895.  Farrar, Gathering Clouds, ii. 38. Whatever skill … of medicine he possessed, he eked it out with theurgic pretences.

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  † B.  sb. A theurgist. Obs. rare.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, X. xvi. (1620), 362. Let the Platonists, Theurgiques (or rather Periurgikes…) or any other Philosophers answer. Ibid., 395. They whom the malicious Theurgike bound from purging the soule of the good one.

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