black mage

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English

Noun

black mage (plural black mages)

  1. A practitioner of black magic.
    Synonym: black magician
    • 1988, Judith Tarr, A Fall of Princes (Avaryan Rising; 3), New York, N.Y.: TOR, →ISBN, page 318:
      But your father has unleashed his mages. Black mages, most of them, vicious with hatred of the Sun’s son.
    • 1989, James M[ichael] Ward, Jane Cooper Hong, Pool of Radiance (Forgotten Realms), Lake Geneva, Wis.: TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 299:
      Runes of the type often used by black mages marred much of the marble surface of the building’s exterior.
    • 1996, w:S. P. Somtow [pseudonym; Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul], The Pavilion of Frozen Women, London: Vista, published 1997, →ISBN, page 156:
      As the chanting rose to a deafening pitch, as the black mages pranced about and sprinkled us with foul fluids, all the corpses fibrillated wildly.
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