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Conjure   /kˈɑndʒər/   Listen
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Conjure  v. t.  (past & past part. conjured; pres. part. conjuring)  To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. "I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it."



Conjure  v. t.  To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers. "The habitation which your prophet... conjured the devil into."
To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms.



Conjure  v. i.  To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate. (A Latinism) "Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest."



Conjure  v. i.  To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. "She conjures; away with her."






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"Conjure" Quotes from Famous Books



... finally and after all their exquisite hesitations mount and flare and unroll themselves in fullness—they, too, seem to be seeking to distill some of the same brew, the same magic drugging potion, to conjure up out of the orchestral depths some Venusberg, some Klingsor's garden full of subtle scent and soft delight and ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld

... a dozen different ways to assist him, but none of them were practicable, and I was obliged to conjure up others. ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... boasted, Parish Thornton stood looking out—and he saw the evening star. It must be hanging, he thought, just over the highest branches of the black walnut tree at home, and he closed his eyes that he might better conjure up the picture of ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

... his heart and expanding his nature. It filled his head with dreams: of a woman dwelling by right in this house of his, and making the air fragrant by her presence. But as the woman—although he tried his utmost to prevent it and to conjure up the form of a totally different type—took the shape of Zora Middlemist, he discouraged such dreams as making more for mild unhappiness than for joy, and bent his thoughts to his guns and railway carriages and other world-upheaving inventions. The only thing that caused him any uneasiness was ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke

... not but conjure up memories of the past, of Esquimalt's departed greatness, bustle and busy life. In 1858, and before my time, this was the British Columbia headquarters of the San Francisco steamers, as well as the headquarters of the navy. Of the latter there were always ...
— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett


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