Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The philosophy, doctrines, traditions, and religious practices of the Magi.
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Examples
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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.”
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It showed that his mode of divination was fraught with danger to magianism in general.
On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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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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