| 释义 |
mage arch.|meɪdʒ|
[Anglicized form of Magus. Cf. F. mage (OF. had mague).]
1. A magician; transf. a person of exceptional wisdom and learning.
c1400Apol. Loll. 95 We callen þe magis, þoo þat calculun bi þe sternis þingis to cum, wening as þei were Goddis gouernours. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 157 Plato, after he was well instructed by Socrates, sought out the mages and wise men of Egypt, by whose meanes he saw the bookes of Moises. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iii. 14 The hardy Mayd..the dreadfull Mage there fownd Depe busied bout worke of wondrous end. 1611Donne Anat. World 390 Th' Egyptian Mages. 1860Forster Gr. Remonstr. 68 Though such circumstances worked well for the Mage [Henry VII] upon the English throne, he did not with all his craft [etc.]. 1869Tennyson Coming of Arthur 279 And there I saw mage Merlin.
2. One of the magi: see Magus 1.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. ii. 115 Their Mages..annoynted their sacrifice with oyle. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 31 b, As we will declare hereafter when we speake of the Persians, and of their Mages. 1877Smith & Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. I. 477/2 The author of that superstition was Masdec,..a mage, who gathered the credulous around him. |