Examples of “magus” in a Sentence

noun A magician or sorcerer, sometimes used disapprovingly to mean a fraud or trickster.

• The novel's villain is a self-styled magus who claims to control the weather.
• In the middle of the fifth century, Empedocles testified to the vitality of these maguses, who were capable of commanding the winds and of bringing the dead back from Hades and who presented themselves, not as mortals, but as gods. — Jean-Pierre Vernant, Greek Religion (1987)

noun A priest of the ancient Zoroastrian religion.

• Historians describe the magi as keepers of Persian religious knowledge and ritual.