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theurgies

theurgies is the plural of theurgy.

Meaning of theurgy

Noun

theurgy (countable and uncountable, plural theurgies)

  1. A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
    • And from this he concludes that theurgy is a craft which accomplishes not only good but evil among gods and men; and that the gods also have passions, and are perturbed and agitated by the emotions which Apuleius attributed to demons and men, but from which he preserved the gods by that sublimity...1871, Augustine of Hippo, translated by Marcus Dods, The City of God, Book X, Chapter 9
  2. A supernatural intervention in human affairs.

Questions about theurgies

What is theurgies the plural of?
Theurgies is the plural of theurgy.

Words near theurgies in the dictionary

  1. theurge
  2. theurges
  3. theurgic
  4. theurgical
  5. theurgically
  6. theurgies
  7. theurgist
  8. theurgists
  9. theurgy
  10. Thevenard syndrome
  11. Theveneau

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