thaumaturgy
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Even without thaumaturgy a table or a door can make the difference between life and death, even a chair.
From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012
When you start playing around with thaumaturgy and all the ways you can manipulate things you’re opening up all sorts of gameplay possibilities.
From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012
There is a lot to experiment with in terms of skills, thaumaturgy and just generally a world driven by massive interactivity and hugely dynamic systems rather than rigid, mechanical ones.
From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012
Golemetry, cut loose from the traditional constraints of mud, dust or sand, is also a notable branch of thaumaturgy in China Miéville's rebellious, seething New Crobuzon and its environs.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
The feats of a vulgar thaumaturgy, designed to make the ignorant stare, may well be dispensed with.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
