Magician vs. Faust

Magiciannoun

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

Magiciannoun

A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts often derogatory.

Magiciannoun

A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

Magiciannoun

An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

Magiciannoun

A person who astounds; an enigma.

Magiciannoun

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Magiciannoun

An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.

Magiciannoun

someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

Magiciannoun

one who practices magic or sorcery

Faust

A tragedy by Goethe, commenced in 1772, and published. as "Faust, ein Fragment" in 1790. Part 1, complete, was published as "Faust, eine Tragödie" in 1808; part 2, finished in 1831, was published in 1833. It has been translated into English by Bayard Taylor, Blackie, Anster, Hayward, Martin, and others (nearly 40 in all). Goethe accomplished the transformation of Faust from a common necromancer and conjurer into a personification of humanity, tempted and disquieted, but at length groping its way to the light. See Goethe.

Faust

An opera by Gounod (words, after Goethe, by Carré and Barbier) represented at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, March 19, 1859.

Faust

An opera by Spohr, first produced at Frankfurt in 1818. The words, which do not follow Goethe's play, are by Bernhard.

Faust

Doctor Johann Faust, a person born at Kundling (Knittlingen), Würtemberg, or at Roda, near Weimar, and said to have died in 1588. He was a man of licentious character, a magician, astrologer, and soothsayer, who boasted of performing the miracles of Christ. It was believed that he was carried off at last by the devil, who had lived with him in the form of a black dog.

Faustnoun

an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.

Faustnoun

an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge

Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).