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单词 thaumaturgy
例句 thaumaturgy
After his missing pal found the Necronomicon, a forbidden book of spells and thaumaturgy, he was led to a tunnel underneath the surface of the Earth, below which terrifying beings are said to dwell. A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z
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. An Interview With 'Sui Generis' Developer Madoc Evans 2012-11-28T23:03:16Z
The practice of thaumaturgy, and the legends invested with the display of the miracle-working power, both preceding and subsequent to that era, rose to a great height. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z
The sequel, indeed, is a great mirror in which the Spanish society of Cervantes’ day is reflected with all the thaumaturgy of genius. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z
The origin is Chinese, and in Japan it has become mixed with the worship of a Shintō deity, and further enlarged by the Buddhist belief of thaumaturgy and magic. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z
Not that he would have fallen back in preference upon the brute resource of thaumaturgy; the coarse and cheap machinery of material miracle was wholly insufficient and despicable to him. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
Then there’s the environment, thaumaturgy and everything else. An Interview With 'Sui Generis' Developer Madoc Evans 2012-11-28T23:03:16Z
The prosy bluntness with which the incidents of this strange story are treated as matter of fact, is scarcely less remarkable than the immorality which substitutes mere thaumaturgy for the finer instincts of humanity. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z
An excellent jest upon this fellow, Fuh-keen, to furnish a demonstration by twentieth-century scientists of the presumption of his claims of necromancy and thaumaturgy. The Haunted Pajamas
But the appearance of the two Asclepigenias in the history of philosophy cannot be regarded as of much importance, as the system of thaumaturgy which they advocated was scientifically worthless. Greek Women
Nor, indeed, need the process of simplification of vegetable food be carried so far as this, in order to arrive at the limit of the plant’s thaumaturgy. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse
Even without thaumaturgy a table or a door can make the difference between life and death, even a chair. An Interview With 'Sui Generis' Developer Madoc Evans 2012-11-28T23:03:16Z
In my first hasty judgment, after dipping into the ‘Higher Criticism,’ I concluded that Jesus was but a charlatan, who had learned thaumaturgy in Egypt and practiced it in Judea. Carmen Ariza
It is no doubt the worst kind of cynicism to make a mock in a realistic vein of any personality that has set in motion the idealising thaumaturgy of the affections. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte
The feats of a vulgar thaumaturgy, designed to make the ignorant stare, may well be dispensed with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
Unfortunately, such wonders attracted disciples who cared more for thaumaturgy than for doctrine, and these fell away as soon as they discovered that the object in view was not the production of marvels. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
When you start playing around with thaumaturgy and all the ways you can manipulate things you’re opening up all sorts of gameplay possibilities. An Interview With 'Sui Generis' Developer Madoc Evans 2012-11-28T23:03:16Z
It destroys forever our belittling view of Him as but a magnified human character, full of wrath and caprice and angry threats, and delighting in human ceremonial and religious thaumaturgy. Carmen Ariza
It had been Mary's first encounter with the baffling thaumaturgy of chemistry; and to the end of her days her confidence in it was never wholly restored. Tutors' Lane
We need not suppose that they agreed—that would have been indeed a miracle and quite a fresh departure for a picture with a reputation earned in a different branch of thaumaturgy Diversions in Sicily
There was a pretty general feeling in Calcutta and Bombay that no glamour or magnetic mystery was needed for Madame Blavatsky’s thaumaturgy, which would soon collapse in Madras as elsewhere. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
Though the advance of scientific discovery has laid a heavy hand on thaumaturgy of the sort, it would no doubt, have its use when properly handled on a modern stage. Freedom, Truth and Beauty
But the priestly thaumaturgy that claims to transform a biscuit into the flesh of a man dead some two thousand years, and a bit of grape juice into his blood, irritates me inexpressibly! Carmen Ariza
Some of these are connected with thaumaturgy and shamanism, some are connected with the powers of nature, and the several devices overlap and interlace in puzzling fashion. The Siouan Indians
In brief, your aid obtained for me overnight the hearing I had vainly sought for a long while; and of such thaumaturgy my appreciation will never be, I trust, inadequate. Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
Second, it was necessary to destroy the principle of miracle, because the priest professes himself in his daily rites the consecrated instrument of thaumaturgy. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)
But we are concerned with thaumaturgy only so far as it has affected Mysticism. Christian Mysticism
Leam's imagination could not compass the thaumaturgy tried to be inculcated. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
He devised non-natural interpretations of its sacred legends, he looked for a visible or tangible ‘sign,’ and he did not shrink from investigating the thaumaturgy of his age.  Cock Lane and Common-Sense
These are Arab al-Aribah for whose inferiority oriental fable accounts as usual by thaumaturgy. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2
We are no longer required to tremble before thaumaturgy and conjuring and occultism. At Large
He then gave an account of spiritualism, thaumaturgy, and wizardry, as practised in the East, concluding with a reference to his Vikram and the Vampire. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
She would have none of their spiritual thaumaturgy—none of that unreal kind of transformation with which they had tried to modify their first teaching. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
In brief, the problem of spiritualism in general presents itself to us thus: in ancient, modern, and savage thaumaturgy there are certain automatic phenomena.  Cock Lane and Common-Sense
It has its analogy in the admission of thaumaturgy on the part of religious teachers, and no doubt a good deal can be said for it. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus
I find myself sorely tempted to tell you that on Zuleika, as her entertainment drew to a close, the spirit of the higher thaumaturgy descended like a flame and found in her a worthy agent. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
The new marvels were certainly not stimulated by literary knowledge of the ancient thaumaturgy Cock Lane and Common-Sense
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. Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Serjeant Cox, a believer in the phenomena, if not in their spiritual cause, was of the company, as was Mr. Jencken, who married one of the Miss Foxes, the first authors of modern thaumaturgy Cock Lane and Common-Sense
It is probable that, in addition to oral legend, there was another and more literary source of modern thaumaturgy Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Thus enough is known to show that savage spiritualism wonderfully resembles, even in minute details, that of modern mediums and séances, while both have the most striking parallels in the old classical thaumaturgy. Cock Lane and Common-Sense
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