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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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
The Magian who had taken the name of Cambyses reigned in security and showed great mildness to all his subjects.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Hence he knew of the fact, and, as was fitting, he urged the overthrow of the Magian before all others.
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
Had he not felt within his hand the soft, cool hand of Cleopatra, he would have believed himself transported into an enchanted world by some witch of Thessaly or Magian of Persia.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
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
What your illustrious magian has taught you, any poor, old, broken-down, heart-shrunken dandy might have lisped.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
One was Atossa, whom we have already mentioned as having been married to Cambyses, her brother, and as having been afterward taken by Smerdis the magian as one of his wives.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Gobryas was foremost; he seized the wretched fugitive by the waist, and struggled to hold him, while the magian struggled to get free.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
At length the conspiracy was formed for dethroning Smerdis the magian, as has already been described, and Darius was designated to reign in his stead.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
