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Magi
noun
1 Magi
New Testament The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them.
synonym: Wise Men.
Roget 984:
heterodoxy;
error
etc.
495;
false doctrine,
heresy,
schism;
schismaticism†,
schismaticalness;
recusancy,
backsliding,
apostasy;
atheism
etc.
(irreligion)
989†.
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
fanaticism,
iconoclasm;
hyperorthodoxy†,
precisianism†,
bibliolatry†,
sabbatarianism†,
puritanism;
anthropomorphism;
idolatry
etc.
991;
superstition
etc.
(credulity)
486;
dissent
etc.
489.
sectarism†,
sectarianism;
noncomformity†;
secularism;
syncretism†.
[religious sects.]
protestantism,
Arianism†,
Adventism,
Jansenism,
Stundism†,
Erastianism†,
Calvinism,
quakerism†,
methodism,
anabaptism†,
Puseyism,
tractarianism†,
ritualism,
Origenism,
Sabellianism,
Socinianism†,
Deism,
Theism,
materialism,
positivism,
latitudinarianism
etc.
High Church,
Low Church,
Broad Church,
Free Church;
ultramontanism†;
papism,
papistry;
monkery†;
papacy;
Anglicanism,
Catholicism,
Romanism;
popery,
Scarlet Lady,
Church of Rome,
Greek Church.
paganism,
heathenism,
ethicism†;
mythology;
polytheism,
ditheism†,
tritheism†;
dualism;
heathendom†.
Judaism,
Gentilism†,
Islamism,
Islam,
Mohammedanism,
Babism†,
Sufiism,
Neoplatonism,
Turcism†,
Brahminism,
Hinduism,
Buddhism,
Sabianism,
Gnosticism,
Hylotheism†,
Mormonism;
Christian Science.
heretic,
apostate,
antichrist†;
pagan,
heathen;
painim†,
paynim†;
giaour†;
gentile;
pantheist,
polytheist;
idolator.
schismatic;
sectary,
sectarian,
sectarist†;
seceder,
separatist,
recusant,
dissenter;
nonconformist,
nonjuror†.
bigot
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
fanatic,
abdal†,
iconoclast.
latitudinarian,
Deist,
Theist,
Unitarian;
positivist,
materialist;
Homoiousian†,
Homoousian†,
limitarian†,
theosophist,
ubiquitarian†;
skeptic
etc.
989.
Protestant;
Huguenot;
orthodox dissenter,
Congregationalist,
Independent;
Episcopalian,
Presbyterian;
Lutheran,
Calvinist,
Methodist,
Wesleyan;
Ana†,
Baptist;
Mormon,
Latter-day Saint†,
Irvingite,
Sandemanian,
Glassite,
Erastian;
Sublapsarian,
Supralapsarian†;
Gentoo,
Antinomian†,
Swedenborgian†;
Adventist†,
Bible Christian,
Bryanite,
Brownian,
Christian Scientist,
Dunker,
Ebionite,
Eusebian;
Faith Curer†,
Curist†;
Familist†,
Jovinianist,
Libadist†,
Quaker,
Restitutionist†,
Shaker,
Stundist,
Tunker
&c.;
ultramontane;
Anglican†,
Oxford School;
tractarian†,
Puseyite,
ritualist;
Puritan.
Catholic,
Roman,
Catholic,
Romanist,
papist.
Jew,
Hebrew,
Rabbinist,
Rabbist†,
Sadducee;
Babist†,
Motazilite;
Mohammedan,
Mussulman,
Moslem,
Shiah,
Sunni,
Wahabi,
Osmanli.
Brahmin†,
Brahman†;
Parsee,
Sufi,
Buddhist;
Magi,
Gymnosophist†,
fire worshiper,
Sabian,
Gnostic,
Rosicrucian
etc.
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Roget 500:
sage,
wise man;
genius;
master mind,
master spirit of the age;
longhead†,
thinker;
intellectual,
longhair.
authority,
oracle,
luminary,
shining light,
esprit fort,
magnus Apollo [Lat.],
Solon,
Solomon,
Nestor,
Magi,
second Daniel. "
man of learning
etc.
492;
expert
etc.
700;
wizard
etc.
994.
wiseacre [Iron.],
bigwig,
know-it-all;
poor man's Einstein.
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magus
noun
1 magus
A magician or sorcerer of ancient times.
Polish: czarnoksiężnik, czarodziej, mag
2 magus
A member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians.
Polish: mag
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