thaumaturgusses

Noun

thaumaturgus (plural thaumaturguses or thaumaturgusses or thaumaturgi)

1. A miracle worker.
   • If to-morrow a thaumaturgus present himself with credentials sufficiently important to be discussed, and announce himself as able, say, to raise the dead, what would be done? A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan

   Synonyms:

   thaumaturgist, thaumaturge