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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun theurgy has 2 senses
- theurgy(n = noun.person) Array - the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs; Array is a kind of causal agency, causal agent, cause
- theurgy(n = noun.cognition) Array - white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists); Array is a kind of white magic
is a part of occult, supernatural
CIDE DICTIONARY
theurgy, n. [L. theurgia, Gr. qeoyrgi`a, fr. qeoyrgo`s doing the works of God; qeo`s God + 'e`rgon work: cf. F. théurgie. See Theism, and Work.].
- A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery. [1913 Webster]
- 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. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
theurgy, n.
1 a supernatural or divine agency esp. in human affairs. b the art of securing this.
2 the magical science of the Neoplatonists.
1 a supernatural or divine agency esp. in human affairs. b the art of securing this.
2 the magical science of the Neoplatonists.
Derivative
theurgic adj. theurgical adj. theurgist n.
Etymology
LL theurgia f. Gk theourgia f. theos god + -ergos working
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theurgy
alchemy, bewitchery, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, rune, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardryROGET THESAURUS
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Sorcery
N sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.
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