thaumaturgy

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There is a lot to experiment with in terms of skills, thaumaturgy and just generally a world driven by massive interactivity and hugely dynamic systems rather than rigid, mechanical ones.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012

When you start playing around with thaumaturgy and all the ways you can manipulate things you’re opening up all sorts of gameplay possibilities.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012

Even without thaumaturgy a table or a door can make the difference between life and death, even a chair.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2012

Golemetry, cut loose from the traditional constraints of mud, dust or sand, is also a notable branch of thaumaturgy in China Miéville's rebellious, seething New Crobuzon and its environs.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010

At the mid-day halting-ground we saw a stone-mother nursing a rock-child, which might still be utilized in lands where "thaumaturgy" is not yet obsolete.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir