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magus

noun

ma·​gus ˈmā-gəs How to pronounce magus (audio)
plural magi ˈmā-ˌjī How to pronounce magus (audio)
ˈma-
1
a
: a member of a hereditary priestly class among the ancient Medes and Persians
b
often capitalized : one of the traditionally three wise men from the East paying homage to the infant Jesus
2
: magician, sorcerer

Synonyms

Example Sentences

attributed the storms to a clash of wills between the two most powerful magi in the land
Recent Examples on the Web And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug. Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022 For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party. Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022 But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Auden’s father, George Augustus Auden, was a physician and an early reader of Freud; the young poet saw himself also as a healer, though in a rather different mode, less an M.D. than a magus. Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 Now, some 250 years later, debates about the glories and failings of the Enlightenment continue, as if the painting’s magus were still awaiting our response. —Mr. Rothstein is the Journal’s Critic at Large. Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022 His face is framed by voluminous graying locks; his loose robes recall those of a medieval magus. Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022 Wells, born in 1866, was a lower-middle-class boy who wanted to become someone of the same scale and sort as his sometime friend Bertrand Russell—a university wit, a man of science, a popularizer, a magus of the mind. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021 One magus, in blue robes with brown eyes, has light-colored skin and carries gold. Susan Dunne, courant.com, 4 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin, from Greek magos — more at magic

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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The first known use of magus was in the 13th century
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