plural magi
ˈmā-ˌjī 
ˈma-
Examples of magus in a Sentence
attributed the storms to a clash of wills between the two most powerful magi in the land
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For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.
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Sam Kiley,
CNN,
30 June 2022
But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.
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Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
Auden’s father, George Augustus Auden, was a physician and an early reader of Freud; the young poet saw himself also as a healer, though in a rather different mode, less an M.D. than a magus.
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Alan Jacobs,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
His face is framed by voluminous graying locks; his loose robes recall those of a medieval magus.
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Edward Rothstein,
WSJ,
21 Mar. 2022
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Sam Kiley,
CNN,
30 June 2022
But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.
—
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
Auden’s father, George Augustus Auden, was a physician and an early reader of Freud; the young poet saw himself also as a healer, though in a rather different mode, less an M.D. than a magus.
—
Alan Jacobs,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
His face is framed by voluminous graying locks; his loose robes recall those of a medieval magus.
—
Edward Rothstein,
WSJ,
21 Mar. 2022
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“Magus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magus. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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