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Merlin

noun

(Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor.

Small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry. Synonyms: Falco columbarius, pigeon hawk.

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... ages the Roman Church claimed, as I have said, a monopoly in orthodox magic. She could send a soul to hell, or by rites and exorcism she could save the sinner from his compact with Satan, as one sees in such legends as those of Merlin, of Tannhaeuser, of Robert the Devil, and of that Theophilus who was converted by flowers sent him from Paradise by the Virgin-Martyr St. Dorothea. Of another Theophilus, an eastern monk of perhaps the sixth century, we are told that, like Faust, he made ...

— The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' • H. B. Cotterill

... Merlin's magic art; here in Venice you may see that of Titian, Giorgione, and all the others. In the Palazzo Barbarigo we went to the room which is said to have been Titian's studio for some time. The window faces the south, and the sun is shining on the floor ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

... 3. Goldmark's opera "Merlin" presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, ...

— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... it was severely criticized by the Dutch writer Jacob van Maerlant, in 1260. In his Merlin he denounces the whole Grail history as lies, asserting that the Church knows nothing ...

— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston

... Jack only lasted a few minutes, then he walked homewards, crossing the Metropolitan Meat-market, going up St. John's Lane, beneath St. John's Arch, thence to Rosoman Street and Merlin Place, where at present he lived. All the way he pondered Clem's words. Already their import had become familiar enough to lose that first terribleness. Of course he should never take up the proposal seriously; no, no, ...

— The Nether World • George Gissing

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