[f. THEURG(Y + -IST. Cf. F. théurgiste (18th c.).] One who practises or believes in theurgy; a magician.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., xxvi. The sacrilegious theurgist will consecrate my head to the crows.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 15. 269. One of those more refined [magicians], who have been called by themselves Theurgists.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. I. iv. 24. The mysticism of the theurgist, who will pass the bounds of the dreaded spirit world … to seize one of its thrones.
