magiciann.

c1375 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 3397 In al that land magicien was noon That koude expounde what this lettre mente.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1298 Nectanabus..Which was an Astronomien And ek a gret Magicien.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 1673 (MED) A magicien he took to his counsail, And he was holde a ful gret philisophre.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1260 Ther saugh I pleye jugelours, Magiciens, and tregetours, And Phitonesses, charmeresses, Olde wicches, sorceresses.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 95 Art magicianis and astrologgis, Rethoris, logicianis and theologgis.

?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 237 I am also a very scilfull southsaier & magission.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 122 Burne ane and al Juglaris, magitianis, familiars w^t wicked and euil spirits.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. viii. 18 The Magicians did so with their enchantments. View more context for this quotation

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 113 The dire Magicians threw their mists around.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 96 Glubbdubdrib..is governed by the Head of a certain Tribe, who are all Magicians.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. ix. 400 Virgil himself had been foolishly thought a magician.

1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. i. 341 A wise magician who has bound the devil.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 61 The concave mirror is the staple instrument of the magician's cabinet.

1878 G. F. Maclear Celts ii. 25 The monarch of Ireland..having in his service his..magicians.

1931 C. Williams Place of Lion xvi. 277 Some incantation whereby the prediluvian magicians had controlled contentions among spirits.

1962 E. Wilson Jrnl. Dec. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 182 Posters and photographs of magicians and magic shows and ventriloquial figures.

1990 D. Ackerman Nat. Hist. Senses ii. 84 To spell-casters, magicians, voodoo-ers, and necromancers of all sorts, a tuft of someone's hair could be used to cast a spell against them.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. ix. 96/2 The Magician, Shakespeare.

1839 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. xxv. 40 A set of beautiful stanzas, inscribed to Scott by Mr. Wilson under the title of the ‘Magic Mirror’, in which..he [i.e. Scott, in 1812] designates, for the first time by what afterwards became one of his standing titles, that of ‘The Great Magician’.

1877 W. P. Lennox Celebrities 2nd Ser. II. 22 All have done equal justice to the genius of the Magician of the North [i.e. Walter Scott].

1923 R. Kipling in Times 11 Oct. 14/7 Man..was something of a magician, if not a miracle-worker.

1943 Esquire Nov. 69/1 First of all there was Albert, a superb ball-handler, a magician with the ball, and a gifted field general.

1967 R. Dahl Charlie & Chocolate Factory ii. 14 He's a magician with chocolate! He can make anything—anything he wants!

1976 Survey Summer 71 The miracle in agrobiology promised in the very near future by the magician Lysenko.

1985 J. Berman Talking Cure iii. 67 The myth of the psychiatrist as a modern magician, a miracle worker dwelling in the psychic landscape of life.