archimage

American  

[ahr-kuh-meyj] / ˈɑr kəˌmeɪdʒ /

noun

1. a great magician.

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archimage British  

/ ˈɑːkɪˌmeɪdʒ /

noun

1. a great magician or wizard

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Etymology

Origin of archimage

First recorded in 1545–55; archi- + mage

Example Sentences

We are now arrived at an association remarkable in itself, but which has been, by the magic arts of romancers, especially of the great archimage of the north, enveloped in darkness, mystery, and awe, far beyond the degree in which such a poetical investiture can be bestowed upon it by the calm inquirer after truth.

From Project Gutenberg

Archimage, �r′ki-māj, n. a chief magician or enchanter.

From Project Gutenberg

The Pamphleteering Archimage, we can perceive, has rather a splenetic love than a downright hatred to real Florimels—if indeed they had been so christened—or had even a pretention to play at bob cherry with Barbara Lewthwaite: but he has a fixed aversion to those three rhyming Graces Alice Fell, Susan Gale and Betty Foy; and now at length especially to Peter Bell—fit Apollo.

From Project Gutenberg

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

“Thy cave was stored with scrolls of strange device, The work of some Saturnian Archimage, Which taught the expiations at whose price Men from the gods might win that happy age Too lightly lost, redeeming native vice; And which might quench the earth-consuming rage Of gold and blood—till men should live and move Harmonious as the sacred stars above.”

From Project Gutenberg