Crossword clues for conjure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[o^]n*j[=u]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjured (-j[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conjuring.] [F. conjurer, fr. L. conjurare to swear together, to conspire; con- + jurare to swear. See Jury.] 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.
--Addison.
Conjure \Con*jure"\, v. i. To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons
Conjured against the Highest.
--Milton.
Conjure \Con"jure\, 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.
--Shak.
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 \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.
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" a demon to do one's bidding. Related: Conjured; conjuring. Phrase conjure up "cause to appear in the mind" (as if by magic) attested from 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. (context African American Vernacular English English) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To perform magic tricks. 2 (context transitive English) To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil 3 (context intransitive English) To practice black magic. 4 (context transitive English) To evoke. 5 (context transitive English) To imagine or picture in the mind. 6 (context transitive English) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech. 7 (context intransitive obsolete English) To conspire or plot.
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, bring up, put forward, call forth]
ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press]
engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, machinate]
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.