Magnano, one of the leaders of the rabble that attacked Hudibras at a bear-baiting. The character is designed for Simeon Wait, a tinker, as famous an independent preacher as Burroughs. He used to style Cromwell “the archangel who did battle with the devil.”—S. Butler, Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
Magnificent (The), Khosru or Chosroës I., of Persia (*, 531-579).
Lorenzo de Medici (1448-1492).
Robert, duc de Normandie; called Le Diable also (*, 1028-1035).
Soliman I., greatest of the Turkish sultans (1493, 1520-1566).
Magnus Troil, honest, plain Zetlander, convivial in his habits, but frank and hospitable. He has two motherless daughters.—Walter Scott, The Pirate. (See Minna and Brenda.)
Magog, according to Ezek. xxxviii., xxxix., was a country or people over whom Gog was prince. Some say the Goths are meant, others the Persians, others the Scythians or the northern nations of Europe generally.
Sale says that Magog is the tribe called by Ptolemy “Gilân,” and by Strabo “Geli” or “Gelæ.”—Al Korân, xxviii. note. (See Gog).
Magog, one of the princes of Satan, whose ambition is to destroy hell.
Magrico, the champion of Isabella, of Portugal, who refused to pay truage to France. He vanquished the French champion, and thus liberated his country from tribute.