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magi

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ma·gi  (mj)
n.
Plural of magus.
magi [maje-eye, may-guss]
Noun, pl
sing magus
1. See magus
2. the three Magi Christianity the wise men from the East who came to worship the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) [see magus]
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Noun1.magiMagi - (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
Wise Men
New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
Balthasar, Balthazar - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
Caspar, Gaspar - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
Melchior - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus; usually represented as a king of Nubia


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The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
Another of these magi constructed (of like material) a creature that put to shame even the genius of him who made it; for so great were its reasoning powers that, in a second, it performed calculations of so vast an extent that they would have required the united labor of fifty thousand fleshy men for a year.
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
So saying, he threw it down at her feet, where, perhaps, it assumed life, being one of the rods which its owner had formerly lent to the Egyptian magi.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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