thaumaturgic
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There are no levels, but there is a more natural progression system based on skills and thaumaturgic powers.
From Forbes • Nov. 8, 2012
Men & women came to hear Doreal talk of "onement with the universal mind" or "full illumination," and to be bound together by the "thaumaturgic power that was exercised by Christ and his disciples."
From Time Magazine Archive
Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luke shows all a romancer's thoughtlessness about miracles; he regards them as "signs": that is, as proofs of the divinity of the person performing them, and not merely of thaumaturgic powers.
From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion by Shaw, Bernard
Some of the most lurid of Alaskan legends deal with the thaumaturgic contests of rival medicine-men, and one judges that sleight of hand and even hypnotic suggestion were cultivated to a fine point.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
