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A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Chapter VII: The Testimony of Jesus to Himself, This, again, in our popular theurgy, is materialised into the First person of the Trinity approving the Second, because he stands to the contract already in the Council of the Trinity passed.
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A supernatural intervention in human affairs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: white magic
the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: causal agent, cause, causal agency
From Late Latin theūrgia, from Ancient Greek θεουργίᾱ (theourgíā, “sorcery”), from θεός (theós, “god”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). By surface analysis, the- + -urgy.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
магия
(magija)
— form of magic
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Catalan:
teúrgia
— form of magic
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Danish:
teurgi
— form of magic
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Dutch:
theürgie
— form of magic
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Estonian:
teurgia
— form of magic
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Finnish:
teurgia
— form of magic
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French:
théurgie
— form of magic
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Friulian:
teurgjie
— form of magic
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Georgian:
თეურგია
(teurgia)
— form of magic
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German:
Theurgie
— form of magic
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Hungarian:
teurgia
— form of magic
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Italian:
teurgia
— form of magic
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Latvian:
teurģija
— form of magic
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Lithuanian:
teurgija
— form of magic
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Occitan:
teürgia
— form of magic
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Polish:
teurgia
— form of magic
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Portuguese:
teurgia
— form of magic
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Romanian:
teurgie
— form of magic
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Russian:
теурги́я
(tɛurgíja)
— form of magic
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Spanish:
teúrgia
— form of magic
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Swedish:
teurgi
— form of magic
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Ukrainian:
теургі́я
(teurhíja)
— form of magic
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Welsh:
dwyfolwaith
— form of magic
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Welsh:
dewiniaeth
— form of magic
