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

The thaumaturgic reputation assigned to the Spirit of Chang Ya Tzŭ was confined for centuries to the valleys of Ssŭch’uan, until at some period antecedent to the reign Yen Yu, in A.D.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)