Noun

(en noun)

A powerful wizard.

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Henry William Herbert, title=The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He felt, for a moment, as the daring archimage whose spells, too potent for their master's safety, have evoked and unchained a spirit that defies their guidance. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The learned Marsilio Ficino translated Plotinus, that great archimage of platonic mysticism . }}

*1935 , (Robert Bloch), ‘The Shambler from the Stars’:

*:The secrets of the old archimage are known today only to the initiated, and they discourage all attempts to spread their fame, for certain very definite reasons.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians ”.}}

A performer of tricks or an escapologist.

An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

A person who astounds, is an enigma.