Crossword clues for conjurer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
Note: This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer.
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.
--Shak.Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them.
--Sir T. Browne. A deceiver; a cheat.
--Shak.A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French conjurour, Old French conjureur "conjurer, magician, exorcist," from Latin coniurator, from coniurare (see conjure).
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.
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]
Wikipedia
Conjurer is a 2008 supernatural horror film directed by Clint Hutchison and written by Hutchison and David Yarbrough. The film had its world premiere on 11 September 2008 at the SoCal Independent Film Festival and was released to DVD on 25 November of the same year. It stars Andrew Bowen as a photographer caught up in a haunting.
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 by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Music Department ( Lisbon), and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. It was given its world premiere by Glennie and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop in Pittsburgh on February 21, 2008.
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.