animagus
/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ɡəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.36 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There is also the question of what we imagine the universes in the multiverse would look like in general. One is virtually forced to speculate, way beyond anything physics can say, that all possible universes exist, in order to guarantee one like ours coming about. Most of these universes would be dead. Of the tiny minority that had life at all, some would really have mythical creatures like unicorns, werewolves and animagi."
- "You know it better as Harry Potter. / It’s full of werewolves, and animaguses, / And men with two faces."
- "Animaguses are rare and all are supposed to be registered with the Ministry of Magic. One particularly famous animagus, according to author TH White, was the magician Merlin."
- "When we match our crown chakras with the topmost lion and its crown, we have the odd experience of looking out from the eyes of the golden lion atop the Ray pillar, as if we have become this lion, shapeshifting like an animagus into a lion’s form, or perhaps into the Lion, as in the Lion archetype, one of the Holy Beasts, the angelic order with the four heads, one for each of the zodiacal quarters and one the figure of a lion."
- "Lucifer was an Animagus, not by God’s hand, but perhaps by evolution or by willing it later and he used it in a successful attempt to lead Adam and Eve astray in the Garden of Eden."
- "Think about how she [Minerva McGonagall] was only one among the seven officially registered Animaguses, in the twentieth century. Yes, of course, there were at least five other unregistered Animaguses, as revealed in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
Etymology
Coined by J. K. Rowling for her Harry Potter series as a blend of animal + magus. Term is introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).