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magician

noun
/məˈd͡ʒɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English magicien, from Middle French magicien.

  1. derived from magicien
  2. inherited from magicien

Definitions

  1. A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

  2. A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.

    • 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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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”.

  3. A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

    2. A person who astounds

      A person who astounds; an enigma.

The neighborhood

Derived

a magician never reveals his secrets, archmagician, black magician, cacomagician, cardician, magicianess, magicianlike, magicianly, magicianry, magician's guilt, magicianship, magickian, mathemagician, nonmagician, white magician

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at magician. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01magician02escapologist03skilled04skill05propriety06essence07illusory08illusion

A definitional loop anchored at magician. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at magician

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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