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Practise magical tricks
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conjure
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "command on oath," from Old French conjurer "invoke, conjure" (12c.), from Latin coniurare "to swear together; conspire," from com- "together" (see com- ) + iurare "to swear" (see jury (n.)). Magical sense is c.1300, for "constraining by spell" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. i. To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. She conjures; away with her. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise , conjure up , invoke , evoke , stir , call down , arouse ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ Homeworking / teleworking Homeworking used to conjure up images of hard-pressed workers licking envelopes or schoolwork that we never wanted to do. ▪ Teams, with three or 10 members depending on their category, ...
Usage examples of conjure.
She did not want to harm the bird, but the thing had already bloodied her and would not back off, so she conjured a minor Venca spell, catching the bird as it plummeted down, insensate.
Bellis could imagine their frantic work gauging aetherial currents, stoking and conjuring.
I could already smell the odor of roasted meat and other, unfamiliar scents, that nonetheless conjured up fairly accurate pictures of the steaming platters surrounding Aman Akbar.
Not the Federation, but something else, something that General Aur and the rest of the Severalty Front were busy conjuring up.
It was one to conjure with, for the Beja were the fiercest and most feared of all the fighting Arabs, and Osman Atalan was their most dreaded warlord.
As though thinking of Chester had conjured him up, Tess, watching from the gazebo, saw him stride purposefully through the garden, ignoring the riotous blooms all around him.
The eyes relished darkness, conjuring up hints of what it might contain, but the borderlight flooded his vision with incontrovertible blankness.
For five minutes, Kohler paced and cursed his friend, conjuring expletives and variations of expletives only another Brooklynite could reassemble.
He contemplated the other member of the family and wondered what miracle Miss Brooks might conjure to make her drab black gown more suitable this evening.
Dialling 100, I conjured out a genteel Brummagem voice, laying it on thick.
Invoking Kozah, the Storm Lord, Candlemas shot his sleeves, locked his fingers, and conjured.
It conjured up images of Norman Rockwell paintings and old Frank Capra movies.
The sound of the word conjured up visions of England, of Chiltern Hall, of his parents and Kitty.
To the crooks he seemed something that The Shadow had conjured from nowhere.
Aragon, is a machine for capsizing the mind, was first conjured up by the Dadaist movement, whose romantic origins and anemic dandyism must be noted.