Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Manganese as used in the decoration of enameled pottery. Solon, The Old English Potter.
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- proper noun A male
given name of mostlyScottish usage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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George Magnus is worried about the possibility of sovereign defaults among OECD countries.
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Magnus is a powerful warrior, who seems unstoppable, yet his one failing may be that he has lost his mind.
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Magnus is a powerful warrior, who seems unstoppable, yet his one failing may be that he has lost his mind.
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Captain Magnus Hanso and his first mate (Widmore or an ancestor) figure out that the island is special.
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Well, I think the best that can be said for the Big Finish audio of Mission to Magnus is that it makes me look forward to hearing all the rest of the BF audio plays I shall listen to this year, because they will be better.
Reading lists, revised nwhyte 2010
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Magnus is a powerful warrior, who seems unstoppable, yet his one failing may be that he has lost his mind.
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I was prepared to pay hundreds for a 1954 edition of Martin Magnus on Mars, but found one through my Abebook alert for just $10.
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Thanks to the internet I finally got hold of a 1950's edition of Martin Magnus on Mars, but I'd still be looking two centuries from now if it were down to used bookstores.
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Updates, 5/24: "Shot with a magnificent palette featuring magnificent outdoor locales and smoky interiors, Magnus is an effective mediation on despondency," writes Eric Kohn at indieWIRE.
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Albert wrote works which in print fill twenty-one folio volumes (whence his name Magnus); but his fame has been somewhat obscured by the more methodical, if almost equally voluminous (in seventeen folio volumes) works of his successor.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907
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