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either to inflift or to remove difeafes at the defire of their 
capricious votaries, how comfortlefs and wretched would 
be the life of man! But the matter has been long ago 
determined by the failure of Pharaoh's magicians ; who, 
though by legerdemain they imitated fome of the mira¬ 
cles of Mofes, could not form the vileft infect, or (land 
before the difeafe which he inflifted upon them as well as 
noon others. See Daemon, Djemoniac, and Demono¬ 
logy, vol. v. alfo the article Juggling, vol. xi. p. 488. 
MAG'IC, or Magical, adj. Adding or doing by pow¬ 
ers fuperior to the known power of nature ; enchanted ; 
necromantic.—They beheld unveiled the magical fhield of 
your Ariofto, which dazzles the beholders with too much 
brightnefs ; they can no longer hold up their arms. Dry- 
den. —By the ufe of a looking-giafs, and certain attire, made 
of cambric, upon her head, the attained to an evil art and 
magical force in the motion of her eyes. Tatltr. 
Upon the corner of the moon 
There hangs a vap’rous drop profound ; 
I’ll catch it ere it come to ground: 
And that, diftill’d by magic flights. 
Shall raife fuch artificial lprights, 
As by the ftrength of their illufion 
Shall draw him on to his confufion, Shakefpeare. 
Done or produced by magic : 
And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and lhake. 
Till all thy magic ftruchires, rear’d fo high. 
Were fhatter’d into heaps. Milton. 
Magic Lantern. See the article Optics. 
Magic Square and Circle. See Number. 
MAG'ICALLY, adv. According to the rites of ma¬ 
gic ; by enchantment.—In the time of Valens, divers curi¬ 
ous men, by the falling of a ring, magically prepared, 
judged that one Theodorus fhould fucceed in the empire. 
Cafhdtn. 
MAGIC'IAN, f. One (killed in magic; an enchanter; 
n necromancer.—There are millions of truths that a man 
is not concerned to know ; as whether Roger Bacon was 
a mathematician or a magician. Locke. 
An old magician , that did keep 
Th’ Hefperian fruit, and made the dragon fleep. Waller. 
MAGIERO'W, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Belcz: twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-weit of Belcz. 
MAGIL'LIGAN PO'INT, a cape of Ireland, on the 
north-weft extremity of the county of Londonderry, at 
the entrance of Lough Foyle: eighteen miles north-eaft 
of Londonderry. Lat. 55. 12. N. Ion. 6. 50. W. 
MAGILLICUD'DY’s REE'KS, mountains of Ireland, 
in the county of Kerry : fifteen miles fouth of Tralee.. 
MAGIN'CA SHO'AL, a fhoal in the Indian Sea, near 
the coalt of Africa. Lat. 15. 45. S. 
MIGINDA'NO. See Mindanao. 
MAGI'NI (John-Anthony), a learned Italian aftrono- 
mer and mathematician, was born at Padua in the year 
1556. He was an excellent geometrician and geographer; 
and obtained the profefforfhip of mathematics in the uni- 
verfity of Bologna. In his aftronomical lectures, he ap¬ 
pears to have been deterred from openly embracing the 
Copernican fyltem, through the apprehenfion of embroil¬ 
ing himfelf with the inquilition ; but he fhowed, notwith- 
ftanding, the real opinion which he entertained concern¬ 
ing it, by the aid which he borrowed from it in correct¬ 
ing his Ephemerides, and demonitrating the inaccuracy 
of the Alphonfine Tables. And, while he adhered to the 
fyftein of Ptolemy, he endeavoured to correct and amend 
it, in a treatife which he publifhed, entitled Nova Ccelejlium 
Orbium Theoria. Among other optical inftruments which 
he constructed and ufed in his aftronomical obiervations, 
were large concave mirrors five feet in diameter, on the 
fubjeft of which he publifhed a treatife in the Italian lan¬ 
guage. But, with all his learning and ingenuity, he was a 
■dupe to the pretended fcience of judicial altrology, and 
bulled himfelfin making horofcopcs,and predicting events, 
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both relating to perfons and things. On this fubjeft he 
wrote De AJlrologica Ratione, dedicated to Francis Gonzague, 
hereditary prince of Mantua and Montferrat, whofe extra¬ 
ordinary favour he acquired, as well as that of many other 
princes in his time, by his reputation for unrivalled (kill 
in that art. Among others, the emperor Rodolph ho¬ 
noured him with his notice, and about the year 1571 in¬ 
vited him to Vienna, where he would have given him a 
profefTor’s chair; and, when he could not prevail upon. 
Magini to leave Bologna, fettled on him a handfome pen- 
fion. Our profeffor died of a ftroke of apoplexy in 1617, 
in the fixty-fecond year of his age. The molt important 
of his numerous works, which reflect honour on his me¬ 
mory, are, 1. Ephemerides, in three volumes, from the 
year 15.80 to the year 1630. 2. Theoria Planetarum jux~ 
ta Copernicas Obfervationes. 3. Problemata aftrono- 
mica, gnowonica, et geographica. 4. Italias Defcriptia 
chorographica, with frxty maps. Bayle. Landi's Hijl de la 
Lit. de I'ltalie, vol. iv. Hutton's Math. Di£l. 
MA'GIO (Francis-Mary), a canon regular, and learned 
mi Hi on ary of the congregation de propaganda fide, was 
born in 1612, and died at Palermo in the year 16S6. In- 
the year 1636, he was fent by the congregation into the 
eaft, and is praifed for the zeal, prudence, and fuccefs, 
•with which he purfued the object of his million in Syria, 
Arabia, and Armenia. He is the author of, 1. Syntag¬ 
mata Linguarum orientalium; 1670, folio. 2. De Sacri3 
Cseremoniis. 3. De Pauli IV. inculpata Vita Difquifitionea 
Hiltoricae ; and feveral other pieces. Nouv. DiQ. Hijl. 
MA'GIS, or Magi'si, a towm of Brafil, in the govern¬ 
ment of St. Paul: thirty-fix miles north-eaft of St.^Paul. 
MAGIS'TER, f. [Latin.] A matter ; formerly ufed 
for a man who had attained to fome eminent degree in 
fcience. 
MAGISTE'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne: two miles north-weft of Valence, 
and five fouth-fouth-weft of St. Maurin. 
MAGISTERIAL, adj. [from magijler, Lat.] Such as 
fuits a mafter.—Such a government is paternal, not magift. 
terial. King Charles. —Lofty; arrogant; proud; infolent ; 
defpotic.—We are not magijlerial in opinions, nor, didta- 
tor-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Brown's Vulgar 
Errours. —Chemically prepared, after the manner of a iiia- 
giftery.—Of corals are chiefly prepared the powder ground 
upon a marble, and the magijlerial f alt, to good purpofe in 
fome fevers: the tindlure is no more than a folution of 
the magijlerial fait. Grew. 
MAGISTERIALLY, adv. Arrogantly ; with an air 
of authority.—Over their pots and pipes, they claim and 
engrofs all wholly to themfelves, magijlerially cenfuring 
the wifdom of all antiquity, icoffing at all piety, and new- 
modelling the world. South. 
MAGISTERIALNESS,/ Haughtinefs; airs of a maf¬ 
ter.—Peremptorinefs is of two forts : the one a magijlerial- 
nejs in matters of opinion, the other a pofitivenels in re¬ 
lating matters of fail: in the one we impofe upon men’s 
underftandings, in the other on their faith. Government cf 
tke Tongue. 
MAGISTF/RIUM,/ [Latin.] Magiftery: 
This is the day I am to perfect for him 
The magifterium, our great work, the ftone. B. Jonfon's Alch. 
MAG'ISTERY, f. [magijlerium, Lat.] A term made 
ufe of by chemifts to iignify fometimes a very fine pow¬ 
der, made by folution and precipitation; as of bifmuth, lead, 
&c. and fometimes refin and refinous fubftances: as thofe 
of jalap, fcamony, &c. but the molt genuine acceptation 
is to exprefs that preparation of any body, wherein the 
whole, or molt part, is, by the addition of fomewhat, 
changed into a body of quite another kind; as when iron 
or copper is turned into cryltals of Mars or Venus. Quincy. 
—Paracelfus extraCteth the magiftery of wine, expoimg it 
unto the extremity of cold; whereby the aqueous parts 
will freeze, but the fpirit be uncongealed in the centre. 
Brown. —The magijlery of vegetables confilis but of the 
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