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magician|məˈdʒɪʃən|
Forms: 4 magicien, 6 (Sc.) –7 magitian, 6 magission, 7– magician.
[a. F. magicien, f. L. magic-a magic n.]
One skilled in magic or sorcery; a necromancer, wizard. Also occas. a practitioner of legerdemain, a conjuror.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 170 Ther saugh I pley Magiciens and tregetours. 1390Gower Conf. II. 230 Protheüs..was an Astronomien And ek a gret Magicien. c1560Misogonus iii. iii. 43 (Brandl), I am also a very scilfull southsaier and magission. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. 1. 122 Burne ane and al Juglaris, magitianis, familiars wt wicked and euill spirits. 1611Bible Exod. viii. 18 The Magicians did so with their enchantments. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 721 The dire magicians threw their mists around. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. Wks. (1841) 499 Virgil himself had been foolishly thought a magician. 1822Byron Werner iii. i. 341 A wise magician who has bound the devil. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic vi. (1833) 148 Even the most ignorant beholder regards the modern magician as but an ordinary man. 1878Maclear Celts ii. 25 The monarch of Ireland..having in his service his..magicians.
b. fig. One who exercises a power compared to that of magic.
18..Lockhart Life Scott (1869) IV. xxv. 40 A set of beautiful stanzas, inscribed to Scott by Mr. Wilson [in 1812] under the title of the ‘Magic Mirror’, in which..he designated him [Scott] for the first time by what afterwards became one of his standing titles, that of ‘The Great Magician’. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. ix, The Magician, Shakespeare. 1877W. P. Lennox Celebrities Ser. ii. II. 22 All have done equal justice to the genius of the Magician of the North [i.e. Walter Scott].
Hence † maˈgicianess, a female magician. rare—1.
1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 74 Which the Egyptians seeing called Nature a Magicianess. |