thaumaturgical
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- adjective
- /ˌθɔːməˈtɜrdʒɪkəl/
- Literature
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thaumaturgico
- With her thaumaturgical skills, she turned ordinary objects into astonishing displays of light and color.
Examples
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The magician's show featured a series of thaumaturgical feats that left the audience in awe.
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As you imply, so blatantly guilty of what it decries in others, namely social programming, since it offers not a jot of careful reasoning but only pushes emotional buttons in the most thaumaturgical style.
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They were not in need of a thaumaturgical prophet; all their history was interwoven with wonders and miracles.
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And it's not about Romney's 'magic underwear' (although that is quite humorous); for we all don our thaumaturgical undergarments.
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Instead, they suggested an array of theological (and occasionally thaumaturgical) solutions: confession, credal prayer, edifying stories, and appeal to higher powers.
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As for scientists learning to communicate better, that's a good thing in some ways, but there's been rather a lot of misplaced dogmatism in the scientific community in recent years, and I suspect some of that is going to be rehashed with more sophisticated thaumaturgical methods, too.
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The better method hatched from the thaumaturgical circlet of tickish schemes would be the counter-intelligence conflation: leak some, then leak what you have in chronological and contextual manner...
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In the ancient texts, the thaumaturgical practices were said to invoke the favor of the gods and produce miraculous results.
Synonyms
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Very surprising and lucky in a way people cannot explain
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Causing great wonder like a magic trick
Rituals that try to call on gods or spirits for help
How Magical
Surface Forms
Morphology
thaumaturgical = thaumaturgic (opaque) = thaumaturg + ic + al
The immediate base 'thaumaturgic' and its components are derived from Greek combining forms unfamiliar to average learners, so the derivation is not guessable from known English morphemes.
Etymology
Thaumaturgical comes from Greek parts thauma 'wonder' and ergon 'work'. So calling something thaumaturgical is a way of saying it 'works wonders' or feels like a miracle.