Mage vs Adept - What's the difference?
mage | adept |
(fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As nouns the difference between mage and adept
is that mage is a magician, wizard or sorcerer while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As an adjective adept is
well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.mage
English
(wikipedia mage)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* archmageAnagrams
* * ----adept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
