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Define the word wizard

Wizard \Wiz"ard\, n. [Probably from wise + -ard.]
   1. A wise man; a sage. [Obs.]
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            See how from far upon the eastern road
            The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet!
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a
      sorcerer; an enchanter.
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            The wily wizard must be caught.       --Dryden.
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Wizard \Wiz"ard\, a.
   1. Enchanting; charming. --Collins.
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   2. Haunted by wizards.
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            Where Deva spreads her wizard stream. --Milton.
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wizard
     adj : possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to
           supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic
           signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a
           magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of
           night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers"
           [syn: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a),
            wizard(a), wizardly]
     n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace,
          adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso,
           genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz,
           wiz]
     2: one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician,
         necromancer]

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "wizard":
   Comus, Faust, OK, ace, ace-high, artist, authority, bad, bang-up,
   bonzer, boss, bully, but good, conjurer, cool, corking,
   crackerjack, dandy, delicious, diabolist, diviner, dowser, ducky,
   enchanter, fab, fine and dandy, first-rater, gear, genius,
   good hand, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up,
   just dandy, keen, mage, magician, magus, mahatma, man of genius,
   marvy, master, master hand, mastermind, mean, miracle-worker, neat,
   necromancer, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, past master, peachy,
   peachy-keen, practiced hand, prodigy, professional, proficient,
   ripping, rum, sage, scrumptious, skilled hand, slap-up, smashing,
   solid, something else, sorcerer, spiffing, spiffy, star, stunning,
   superstar, swell, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist,
   topnotcher, tough, virtuoso, warlock, water witch, whiz

wizard n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of
   software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who
   can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if
   he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to
   something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that
   thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time
   to study it. 2. The term `wizard' is also used intransitively of someone
   who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving ability. 3. A
   person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one
   who has wheel privileges on a system. 4. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix
   systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that `Unix
   Wizard' is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most
   headhunters. See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic,
   heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance,
   voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.

wizard
     
        1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or
        hardware works (that is, who groks it); especially someone
        who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency.  Someone is
        a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a
        wizard with respect to something only if he or she has
        specific detailed knowledge of that thing.  A good hacker
        could become a wizard for something given the time to study
        it.
     
        2. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to
        ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.
     
        3. A Unix expert, especially a Unix systems programmer.  This
        usage is well enough established that "Unix Wizard" is a
        recognised job title at some corporations and to most
        headhunters.
     
        See guru, lord high fixer.  See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance,
        voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.
     
        4. An interactive help utility that guides the user through a
        potentially complex task, such as configuring a PPP driver
        to work with a new modem.  Wizards are often implemented as
        a sequence of dialog boxes which the user can move forward
        and backward through, filling in the details required.  The
        implication is that the expertise of a human wizard in one of
        the above senses is encapsulated in the software wizard,
        allowing the average user to perform expertly.
     
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Wizard
   a pretender to supernatural knowledge and power, "a knowing
   one," as the original Hebrew word signifies. Such an one was
   forbidden on pain of death to practise his deceptions (Lev.
   19:31; 20:6, 27; 1 Sam. 28:3; Isa. 8:19; 19:3).