thaumaturgy

How To Use thaumaturgy In A Sentence

• While theurgy (almost by definition) lies within the realms of both magic and religion, thaumaturgy does not.
• Thaumaturgy means, ‘wonder working’ and refers to the conjuration of spirits, casting of spells, blessing, cursing, curing and harming through practical magick.
• He deals with miracles as Renan deals with them, believing that credence in "thaumaturgy" will drop off from the human mind as credence in witchcraft has done -- that Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
• The Thaumaturgy of both is the same: the Indian is profuse in demonology and witchcraft; in transformation and restoration; in monsters as wind-men, fire-men and water-men, in air-going elephants and flying horses (i. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language. Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
• Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language. Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
• At the mid-day halting-ground we saw a stone-mother nursing a rock-child, which might still be utilized in lands where "thaumaturgy" is not yet obsolete. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
• The Greeks made a distinction between theurgy and thaumaturgy.
• You know what I think of visions and oracles and thaumaturgy and all the rest of that. KING OF DREAMS
• There are a lot of ways of showing magic in fantasy, ranging from the point-and-zap thaumaturgy that seems to be the general procedure for Harry Potter to the uncanny, archetypal forces at work of Last Call. I put on my robe and wizard hat «