Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English mages, magicians, variant of magi; see magus.
Examples
“The manga Negima! has a magic system called “pactio” in which one mage chants a protection spell over his or her partner, while the partner defends the mage from physical attacks using a weapon induced by the spell, since the mage is vulnerable when chanting spells.”
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“I said mage is one of the hardest classes to play right and one of the hardest classes to beat if they KNOW HOW TO PLAY RIGHT.”
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“A river mage is called upon to investigate the water ghosts seen in London and surmises that the Queen's rival, the fairy of the under-hill, is mounting an attack.”
“Just had to post with a comment to Applecrow that if your group really could beat the druid/mage (what a terrible choice of classes btw) that the druid/mage is a complete idiot.”
“After getting your red mages to level 5, green to level 3, and electric to level 3, start saving up for an archer. (the bottom red mage is probably still level 1).”
“Rogan, a dark mage, is hunting for an amulet that magnifies power.”
“Use what days you have; the life of a mage is short enough.”
Colors of Chaos
“Religion is also uncertain; some of the Picts may have been Christian from an early date given the reference to 'apostate Picts', but Bridei had a 'mage' - presumably some sort of non-Christian priest or advisor?”
“The player can select one of four different classes, a human fighter, a human cleric, a dwarven fighter, and an elvin mage.”
“She had to call the mage doctor to fix the maid, and then the maid quit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mage’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Dungeons and Dragons
Would you like to join our party? We just started a new campaign.
For more general lists about role-playing games, see brandelion's RPG and lampbane's Tales of the Dread Gazebo.dungeons and dragons, d&d, elf, orc, halfling, drow, giant, troll, kobold, rpg, d20, human and 96 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 315 more...
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Magic Users
Wonderworkers and spellcasters, names and types. Not including any of those -mancer words.
witch, wizard, kahuna, mirabilist, mentalist, magi, illusionist, medicine man, sorcerer, conjurer, diviner, mage and 23 more...
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barrels of cocks
werdz
niggerbaby, niggerhouse, lol, mage, tit, dragonslayer, fuck, ninety-one, lolcat, diddy, nitty, what and 3 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
vanishedone Oddly enough, WordNet defines magus but not mage. Dec 20, 2008