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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.

An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

A magician; a wonder worker. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. Burton.

Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.

One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. Carlyle.

A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.

Same as Theave. [Prov. Eng.]

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

See Thee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.

A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.

The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. Gladstone.

One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.

Theanthropism.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.