Meanings
plural thaumaturguses · plural thaumaturgusses · plural thaumaturgi
- A miracle worker.
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.
1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest RenanSynonyms: thaumaturgist, thaumaturge
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA miracle worker.
Origin
- Ancient Greekθαυματουργός
- Medieval Latinthaumaturgus
- Englishthaumaturgus
Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.
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