magus

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And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2022

Burgess originally intended to capture Death but when Dream materializes instead, unconscious and helpless, the "magus" decides he'll do just fine.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022

When Barnes was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for “The Sense of an Ending,” one of the judges called him “an unparalleled magus of the heart.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

More famously, a 1983 novel is written as a fictional diary by Oscar Wilde, a photograph of whom decorates his study, sandwiched between Thomas More and the Elizabethan magus John Dee.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2017

It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan