Magician vs Magus - What's the difference?
magician | magus |
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
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, title= A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
A person who astounds, is an enigma.
(common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan
(special usage) a Zoroastrian priest
: Note : the two meanings overlap in classical usage— both derive from the Greco-Roman identification of "Zoroaster" as the "inventor" of astrology and magic. The first meaning ('magician') derives from the sense of "practitioner of the Zoroaster's craft", and the second meaning ('priest') from the sense of "practitioner of Zoroaster's religion".
As nouns the difference between magician and magus
is that magician is a person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic while magus is (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan.magician
English
(wikipedia magician)Alternative forms
* magitian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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 ”.}}
