Theurgy

[θi:ә:dʒi]

Definition

(noun.) white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists).

(noun.) the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs.

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Definition

(n.) A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

(n.) A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.

(n.) In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Necromancy, witchcraft, sorcery, magic, thaumaturgy, wonder-working, the black art, feats of magic.

Typist: Zamenhof

Definition

n. that kind of magic which affects to work by supernatural agency as distinguished from natural magic and necromancy.—adjs. Theur′gic -al.—n. Theur′gist a magician.

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