archimage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of archimage
Example Sentences
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David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt, for a moment, as the daring archimage whose spells, too potent for their master's safety, have evoked and unchained a spirit that defies their guidance.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
And thou by whom this strain hath parentage; Wantoner between the yet untreacherous claws Of newly-whelped existence! ere he pause, What gift to thee can yield the archimage?
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
But, like that archimage, conscious that all depends on the exertion of his wonted empire, he struggled hard to regain his lost authority.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
The learned Marsilio Ficino translated Plotinus, that great archimage of platonic mysticism.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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