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Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
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conjurer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who conjures, a magician. 2 One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand. 3 One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner. 4 (context obsolete English) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French conjurour , Old French conjureur "conjurer, magician, exorcist," from Latin coniurator , from coniurare (see conjure ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juggler \Jug"gler\, n. [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke , and cf. Jongleur , Joculator .] One who juggles; one who ...
Wikipedia
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Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra (with optional Brass) is a concerto for a solo percussionist and string orchestra by the American composer John Corigliano . The work was jointly commissioned for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician , prestidigitator , conjuror , illusionist ] a witch doctor who practices conjury [syn: conjuror , conjure man ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Almost every conjurer who has taken a parti pris in this field has found himself accused of possessing psychic powers. ▪ Conchis plucked the muslin away from one of the plates with the quick aplomb of a conjurer . ▪ He came back ...
Usage examples of conjurer.
Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.
De Bry praestigiatores, Adair himself sometimes Magi, Archimagi, cunning men, Seers, rain makers, and the modern Indian interpreters, call them Conjurers and Witches.
It had been imprisoned in the Tangle Box, and it had tricked them into freeing it, using Biggar as channeler, Horris as conjurer, both as instruments for picking the locks that held it chained.
For centuries the conclave had provided conjurers for the courts of Felwaithe and Kisburn.
Whatever the reason, that Kisburn's conjurers had constrained his powers was a real and chilling fact.
To claim injury for Kisburn's conjurers is to assume culpability for their crimes.
For what his conjurers did to Anskiere, you understand, and probably a bit on general principle.
Then one day their conjurers told them that Morbrith's citizens had dropped in their tracks like carrion.
Yet if he resented the captivity set upon him by conjurers on the isle of Imrill Kand, his words revealed no rancour.
He waited without speech for the Magelord to continue, while unspoken between them rose the tension and the memory left by Anskiere's imprisonment at the hands of Kisburn's conjurers on Imrill Kand.
Through dream-sense, Taen knew he spoke of the past, and the contention that remained unresolved since Kisburn's conjurers had tried to coerce Anskiere to free the frostwargs for the purpose of conquest and greed.
Had he not yielded his powers for Kisburn's conjurers to bind, the villagers of Imrill Kand would have attempted out of loyalty to defend him.
As dusk fell, lanterns flickered and swung from the twisted limbs of the almond trees, while dark-robed conjurers conferred in groups beneath.
The spells of the Mhored Karan conjurers were no part of the cause, but only the foil for an apprehension Taen had no name for.
The light they emit is like that of conjurers, intended to produce false impressions.