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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
magician
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We watched in amazement as the magician made all the rings disappear.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, Seldon was not a magician.
▪ And then the genie told him about the magician disguised as the holy woman.
▪ The first act in the talent show is the Great Gregorini, a magician.
▪ The little magician did take seven wickets but he had to bowl 97 overs to get them.
▪ The mystic and the magician are examples of contrasting approaches.
▪ There he learned his second craft, that of magician.
▪ They were fascinated by him, as if he were a magician, which of course he is.
▪ Yeah, they hired a magician to come and do magic and he was really terrific.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
magician

Juggler \Jug"gler\, n. [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. Jongleur, Joculator.]

  1. One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.

    Note: This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer.

    As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.
    --Shak.

    Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. A deceiver; a cheat.
    --Shak.

  3. A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
magician

late 14c., from Old French magiciien "magician, sorcerer," from magique (see magic (n.)).

Wiktionary
magician

n. 1 A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic. 2 A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (qualifier: often derogatory).

WordNet
magician
  1. n. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist]

  2. one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, wizard, necromancer]

Wikipedia
Magician (paranormal)

A magician is a practitioner of magic who attains objectives or acquires knowledge using supernatural means.

Some modern magicians, such as Aleister Crowley and those who follow the traditions of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis, describe magic in rational terms, using definitions, postulates and theorems. Aleister Crowley said "the magician of the future will use mathematical formulas".

The paranormal kind of magician (unlike the stage illusionist) can also be referred to as an enchanter, wizard, mage, magus or thaumaturgist. These overlapping terms may be distinguished by some traditions or some writers. When such distinctions are made, sorcerers are more often practitioners of evocations or black magic, and there may be variations on level and type of power associated with each name. In this regard white magic very often seems to be a non-relevant form of wizardry, although in literature, poems and movies it actually represents and performs a much more future-oriented way of existence.

Some names, distinctions or aspects may have more of a negative connotation than others, depending on the setting and the context. (See also Magic and Magic and religion, for some examples.)

Magician

Magician or The Magician may refer to:

Magician (Feist novel)

Magician is a fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and was published in 1982. It led to many books written by Feist in the world of Midkemia, which was the setting for this book. Originally reduced in size by his editors, it was re-published in 1992 (after the author's fame had grown) in an edition titled "The Author's Preferred Edition" (or "revised edition" in some markets) with much of the deleted text restored. Magician was separated into two volumes for the United States market and published as: Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master. The book is still published as a single volume, titled Magician, in the UK.

Magician (video game)

Magician is a side-scrolling role-playing game released in February 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was designed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Taxan.

Magician (comics)

Magician is the name of three characters in Marvel Comics.

Magician (fantasy)

A magician, mage, sorcerer, sorceress, warlock, witch, witcher, wizard or wizardess is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural or occult sources. Magicians are common figures in works of fantasy, such as fantasy literature and role-playing games, and enjoy a rich history in mythology, legends, fiction, and folklore.

Magician (horse)

Magician (foaled 24 April 2010) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing unremarkable form as a two-year-old in 2012, he established himself as a top-class performer in May 2013 with wins in the Dee Stakes and the Irish 2000 Guineas. After a long break, he returned in November to win the Breeders' Cup Turf and a month later was voted Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt.

Magician (song)

"Ma’Gyptian (Magician Remix)" is a song by Nigerian recording artist Ice Prince, featuring Jamaican reggae singer Gyptian. It was released on March 4, 2012 as the fourth single from his debut studio album, Everybody Loves Ice Prince (2011). The song was produced by Jesse Jagz and released under Chocolate City.

Magician (1967 film)

Magician - a feature film director Pyotr Todorovsky, shot in 1967 on an experimental creative studio (Moscow). The first film of the studio.

Usage examples of "magician".

It was afire with light and covered in rainbows and on its back rode a magician in black.

Our alfresco performance was an impromptu affair, since we had no props, but we did well enough with silks and coins and such sketchy materials-as you know, real magicians can work under any circumstances.

I correct in assuming that you ship scales to Almery at the command of Iucounu the Magician?

Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians , Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1983.

Shimone, and while the outrage of the assembled magicians whipped to a boiling rage, the fat magician and his slender companion were the first out the door.

After I had given all my orders very seriously and without any wish to laugh, I went to bed highly pleased with my personification of a magician, in which I was astonished to find myself so completely successful.

Thereon I bade the Khania Atene, and that old magician her great-uncle, who is Guardian of the Gate, go down to the ancient gates of Kaloon to receive you and bring you hither with all speed.

His present wealth had also caught an even shrewder financial magician in his net: Gaius Rabirius Postumus, whose thanks for reorganizing the shambles of the Egyptian public accounting system had been to be stripped naked by King Ptolemy Auletes and his Alexandrian minions, and shoved penniless on a ship bound for Rome.

Magicians and Axolotls THE river carried them along toward the sea, and for three days they did little else but eat, sleep, and throw out an occasional fishing line.

And the magician, beholding how his art was scorned and set at small account, once again by his enchantments covered the places that had been whitened with snow, even with a palpable cloud of thick darkness.

Magician identified a talent for Bink, then he would not be exiled, and he would have a year available.

X knew that if he was to spirit Birr out of the club now, he would have to be a magician.

Red Lion came closer and closer to the stern of the galley, those on the carack could see the stern, masklike features of the shaven-skulled magician working with rage.

GoBop explained, pulling sheets of software fiche from zippered vest pockets like some comp magician.

She appeared to me to acquire a new self-confidence during that swift journey, as if Henri de la Fontaine Coq were a magician who had conjured forth, by mere proximity, her hidden value.