1) a magus
    1a) 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.
    1b) 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
    1c) a false prophet and sorcerer