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Definition of Magician
1. Noun. Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.
Specialized synonyms: Escape Expert, Escapologist, Mind Reader, Telepathist, Thought-reader
Generic synonyms: Performer, Performing Artist
Derivative terms: Conjure, Conjure, Illusion, Magic
2. Noun. One who practices magic or sorcery.
Specialized synonyms: Enchanter, Exorciser, Exorcist, Magus, Sorceress, Witch Doctor
Generic synonyms: Occultist
Specialized synonyms: Cagliostro, Count Alessandro Di Cagliostro, Giuseppe Balsamo
Derivative terms: Magic, Necromancy, Wizard, Wizardly
Definition of Magician
1. n. One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Definition of Magician
1. Noun. A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic. ¹
2. Noun. A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (qualifier often derogatory). ¹
3. Noun. A performer of tricks or an escapologist. ¹
4. Noun. An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist. ¹
5. Noun. A person who astounds, is an enigma. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Magician
1. one skilled in magic [n -S]
Medical Definition of Magician
1. One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer. Origin: F. Magicien. See Magic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magician
Literary usage of Magician
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"returned the magician, delighted. So they raised their wands, ... The wizard
turned and saw the magician standing behind him, looking very foolish. ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"However, the magician, seriously grieved, called up the demons by his ...
The blessed apostle rebuked the magician, telling him that the society of demons ..."
3. The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1892)
"Next come, not as helper, but as competitor to the witch, the magician or ...
Sometimes he was as much or more of an astrologer than of a magician ..."
4. Hereward the Wake, "last of the English," by Charles Kingsley (1905)
"xi HOW HE WAS TAKEN FOR A magician CHAPTER XI HOW THE HOLLANDERS TOOK HEREWARD
FOR A magician OF this weary Holland war which dragged itself on, ..."
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