Magi
plural noun
null the Magi, in the Bible, the astrologers who paid homage to the young child Jesus, traditionally assumed to be three in number and to be named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior.
Magian
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a word derived from
Magi.
magian
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a word derived from
magi.
Magiplural nounnull the Magi, in the Bible, the astrologers who paid homage to the young child Jesus, traditionally assumed to be three in number and to be named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior.
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For this horrible service he sent Cometes, a Magian, one of his trusted servants.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Some one who seeks his own advantage will betray the matter to the Magian.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
According to Herodotus, the Magian reigned more than seven months after the death of Cambyses, i. e. down to the spring of 521 B.C.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Away in the East Cyrus had been succeeded in 529 B.C. by Cambyses, who had annexed Egypt and on whose death in 522 a Magian impostor, Gaumata, had seized the throne.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
There was a man, a Magian, Gaumata by name; he rose up from Pisiyauvada, from mount Arakadris, which is there.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
They did the same with the other magian, whom they found that their confederates had killed when they returned to the apartments where they had left them contending.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
The Queen Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, who has already been mentioned as the wife of Cambyses and of Smerdis the magian, was one of the wives of Darius.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
He raised an army and put it under the command of Otanes, who, it will be recollected, was one of the seven conspirators that combined to dethrone Smerdis the magian.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Night, which to the eye of the magian shows more clearly all that the bright day conceals, overspread with a wizard twilight the vast hollow of the heavens.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
