magian

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MA'GIAN, adjective [Latin magus.] Pertaining to the Magi, a sect of philosophers in Persia. MA'GIAN, noun One of the sect of the Persian Magi, who hold that there are two principles, one that cause of good, the other of evil. The knowledge of these philosophers was deemed by the vulgar to be supernatural.
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