Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chief magician or enchanter; a wizard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.
  • noun A great magician, wizard, or enchanter.

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  • noun A powerful wizard.

Etymologies

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From archi- +‎ mage, by analogy with Latin archimagus.

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Examples

  • Booze and ghost girls bring on uneven archimage agreement before underworld undertaking.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Booze and ghost girls bring on uneven archimage agreement before underworld undertaking.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Booze and ghost girls bring on uneven archimage agreement before underworld undertaking.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Price of Pain-Ease - Fritz Leiber Blue Tyson 2007

  • An archimage senses how the land of Ruwendafairs in order to act to protect it.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Freedomstar 2006

  • An archimage senses how the land of Ruwendafairs in order to act to protect it.

    Review: _Lady of the Trillium_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley Freedomstar 2006

  • “No, no, Rashleigh,” said Miss Vernon; “dismiss from your company the false archimage Dissimulation, and it will better ensure your free access to our classical consultations.”

    Rob Roy 2005

  • They say the Autarch wants some people to remain in each to accent the reality of the scene, and so his archimage, Father Inire, has invested them with a conjuration.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • ` ` No, no, Rashleigh, '' said Miss Vernon; ` ` dismiss from your company the false archimage Dissimulation, and it will better ensure your free access to our classical consultations. ''

    Rob Roy 1887

  • But, like that archimage, conscious that all depends on the exertion of his wonted empire, he struggled hard to regain his lost authority.

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

  • The learned Marsilio Ficino translated Plotinus, that great archimage of _platonic mysticism_.

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

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  • JM knows there must be many tricks to becoming an archimage.

    January 18, 2011