The Collaborative International Dictionary
thaumaturgy \thau"ma*tur`gy\ (th[add]`m[.a]*t[^u]r"j[y^]), n.
The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic;
legerdemain.
--T. Warton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wonder-working," 1727, from Greek thaumatourgia, from thaumatourgos (see thaumaturge). Related: Thaumaturgic; thaumaturgical (1620s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The working of miracles 2 magic; witchcraft, wizardry
Wikipedia
Thaumaturgy (, from Greek , meaning "miracle" or "marvel" and , meaning "work") is the capability of a magician or a saint to work magic or miracles. Isaac Bonewits defined thaumaturgy as "The use of magic for nonreligious purposes; the art and science of 'wonder working;' using magic to actually change things in the physical world." It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking. A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturge, thaumaturgist or miracle-worker.
Usage examples of "thaumaturgy".
Their second look encompassed the ribbons on his left breast which proclaimed him a Doctor of Thaumaturgy and a Fellow of the Royal Thaumaturgical Society.
If anybody had to use that particular thaumaturgy a lot it would be the CBI.
Thanks to modem thaumaturgy, our present culture supports far more people at a higher level of affluence and greater material comfort than any other in the history of the world.
Blue Scutum plans, and it has an excellent thaumaturgy benefits package.
He was quite at home reading about levitation and countergeotropic thaumaturgy and his beloved unified field theory, but the prints of Teafortwo had made him realize how little he understood the biomechanics of simple flight.
It was expensive, but this kind of thaumaturgy was not just a question of learning a few passes.
I assimilate history and religion, thaumaturgy and science and philosophy within my data banks.
He talks of betrayals and counter-betrayals, of mathematics and lies and thaumaturgy, dreams and winged things.
Only quick thinking and some inspired thaumaturgy combined with my investigative skills let me stay with him.
Or by air, or thaumaturgy, somehow making their ways at last to Judah Low.
A chelonaman raised something to his lips, and there was a thin noise, and way above there were cries and some of the militia stumbled at some thaumaturgy in the trumpet.
A humming of thaumaturgy made the air thin as a militia officer made shapes on the thing, and there was crackling, and the wire-and-hide moved.
At one point they performed a complex little double slap and turned to their audience with new facesclannish thaumaturgy made them playfully monstrous, splayed their teeth like uncouth tusks.
He could have manifested something with a touch on a woodpile, but with only thaumaturgy holding it it would have drained him quicker or fallen apart.
He attaches strings to her limbs and now while his thaumaturgy makes her dance, he waggles a frame as if he is manipulating her.