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Magnum Opus
/ˌmæɡnəm ˈoʊpəs/
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What does Magnum Opus mean?
noun
- A great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
- The best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author or artist, representing their major life effort.
- The process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone.
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/ˌmæɡnəm ˈoʊpəs/
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Marx's magnum opus, ``Capital,'' added bulk and substance to the theses of the Communist Manifesto.
The magnum opus, perhaps, of the child as inventor, is the lyre, the discovery of which, classical mythology attributes to the infant Mercury or Hermes.
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Siemens had been trained as a mechanical engineer, and, although he became an eminent electrician in later life, his most important work at this early stage was non-electrical; indeed, the greatest achievement of his life was non-electrical, for we must regard the regenerative furnace as his MAGNUM OPUS.