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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The philosophy, doctrines, traditions, and religious practices of the Magi.

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Examples

  • Nor was it forgotten that, before the spread of Al – Islam, they had presided over the Naubehár or Pyræthrum of Balkh; and Harun is said to have remarked anent Yahya, “The zeal for magianism, rooted in his heart, induces him to save all the monuments connected with his faith.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It showed that his mode of divination was fraught with danger to magianism in general.

    On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Nor was it forgotten that, before the spread of Al-Islam, they had presided over the Naubehár or Pyræthrum of Balkh; and Harun is said to have remarked anent Yahya, "The zeal for magianism, rooted in his heart, induces him to save all the monuments connected with his faith." [

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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