Thaught (?), n. (Naut.) See Thwart.
Thau`ma*tol"a*try (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a wonder + &?; worship.]
Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. [R.]
The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than
a century.
Hare.
Thau"ma*trope (?), n. [Gr. &?; a wonder + &?; to turn.] (Opt.) An
optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression
upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two
different objects, or halves of the same object, as a bird and a cage,
which, when the card is whirled rapidlz round a diameter by the strings
that hold it, appear to the eye combined in a single picture, as of a
bird in its cage.
Thau"ma*turge (?), n. [See Thaumaturgus.] A magician; a wonder worker.
Lowell.
{ Thau`ma*tur"gic (?), Thau`ma*tur"gic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to
thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. Burton.
Thau`ma*tur"gics (?), n. Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
Thau`ma*tur"gist (?), n. One who deals in wonders, or believes in them;
a wonder worker. Carlyle.
||Thau`ma*tur"gus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; wonder-working; &?; a
||wonder + &?; work.] A miracle worker; — a title given by the Roman
||Catholics to some saints.
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Thau"ma*tur`gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;.] The act or art of performing
something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.