E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Magna’no.
One of the leaders of the rabble that attacked Hudibras at a bear-baiting. The character is a satire on Simeon Wait, a tinker and Independent preacher. (Hudibras, pt. i. 2.) He calls Cromwell the “archangel who did battle with the devil.”
