Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The high priest of the Persian magi, or worshipers of fire.
- noun A chief magician; an archimage.
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- noun Alternative form of
archimage .
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Examples
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The highest church of all was "_the fire-temple_," the residence of the archimagus, first established by
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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Their hierarchy was headed by an archimagus; we do not know his title in the national language, but we do know that, after the king, he was the chief person in the empire.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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The archimagus, or high-priest, wears, in resemblance to the ancient breast-plate, a white conch-shell ornamented so as to resemble the precious stones on the _Urim_, and instead of the golden plate worn by the Levite on his forehead, bearing the inscription _Kodish
Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820
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When the king died and his successor was not on the spot to assume the reins of government, the archimagus was regent during the interregnum, as, for instance, between the death of Nabopolassar and the accession of Nebuchadnezzar. [
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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