thaumaturgus

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.

Noun

thaumaturgus (plural thaumaturguses or thaumaturgusses or thaumaturgi)

A miracle worker.
- 1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus‎, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan:
  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.

Usage notes

This is a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thaumaturgus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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