thaumaturgic

• Miss Sally, he had perceived early, excited in the hill-farm people a species of awe, as though she were on a par with the circus, thaumaturgic, almost too good to be true The court house, the railroad and Miss Sally!" —  Sally of Missouri
• If I could believe that any water was sacred and thaumaturgic, it would be of that fountain which appeared so opportunely for the benefit of the perishing thousands of Andersonville. —  Andersonville — Volume 3
• Many of these letters represent him in correspondence with the singular men who shared his own half poetic, half scientific turn of mind, with that impressibility towards what one might call the thaumaturgic elements in nature which has often made men dupes, and which is certainly an element in the somewhat atrabiliar mental complexion of that age in England. —  Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
• The remedies are of three kinds: simples, such as St. John's wort, Clown's all-heal, elder, parsley, maidenhair, mineral drugs, such as lime, saltpetre, Armenian bole, crocus metallorum, or sulphuret of antimony; and thaumaturgic or mystical, of which the chief is, "My black powder against the plague, small-pox; purples, all sorts of feavers; Poyson; either, by Way of Prevention or after Infection." —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• The water -- the terrible thaumaturgic stream -- clung to him more inseparably than the brand-mark on a slave's arm. —  Serapis — Volume 04

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