<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a magus<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the name given by the Babylonians (Chaldeans), Medes, Persians, and others, to the wise men, teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, augers, soothsayers, sorcerers etc.<LI>the oriental wise men (astrologers) who, having discovered by the rising of a remarkable star that the Messiah had just been born, came to Jerusalem to worship him<LI>a false prophet and sorcerer</OL></OL>