thaumaturgy

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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

Then there’s the environment, thaumaturgy and everything else.

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

In addition to the evidence of Porphyry, Iamblichus, Eusebius and other authors of the fourth century, some recently published papyri of the same period throw a little light on the late Greek thaumaturgy.

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew