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

Further, the words used to describe men with magical powers – warlock, magus, sorcerer, wizard – don’t carry the same stigma.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2018

He stood above me, held the book aloft, and in a loud, even piercing tenor, declaimed: “Hoc anno, servus nomine Eunis qui a paucis esse magus dicebatur in dominos suos coortus est.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson