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(New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
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melchior
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Melchior , or ' Melichior ', was purportedly one of the Biblical Magi along with Caspar and Balthazar who visited the infant Jesus after he was born . Melchior was often referred to as the oldest member of the Magi. He was traditionally called the King ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, literally "king of light," from Hebrew melekh "king" + or "light."
Usage examples of melchior.
Rather than devising a plan to regain my offices as businessman, father, and husband, I found myself thinking of bizcochos, blackhearts, melchiors and swizzle sticks, of the unknowable creature coiled within my skull, of the mystery these creatures posed, the exotic universal potentials their existence suggested, potentials most clearly expressed by the stormdweller.
Li was no more than a hundred and fifty centimeters high and, combined with the weathering and semistarvation of the months on Melchior, she could not have weighed more than thirty-five kilograms or so, yet there was an energy and force inside her that made her seem like a giant to the nearly two-meter-tall muscular man, who easily had a hundred kilos on her, and who now stood there gaping at this sight.
She would dress him as a Nubian pirate, as the Ace of Clubs, as King Melchior, and take him to the poor districts, above all when the galleons were anchored in the bay and the city went on a binge that lasted half a year.
Mutti said that either Melchior or Otto had to go with her because the streets were not as safe as they should be.