The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "to conjure up".
She had made certain that it was icy water too, not hot-shocking them with the cold and giving her a chance to conjure up her next weapon.
Although at the rate that they are drinking, I may test my abilities to the limit to conjure up enough to keep up with them!
And as Damien's teachers had never ceased to stress, it was far easier to get yourself lost in the multiple distractions of a crowd than it was to conjure up invisibility when there wasn't a distraction in sight.
Eleana closed her eyes and willed herself to conjure up her grandfather, a big, sun-browned Kundalan who had lived his whole life out of doors.
Belor, we need your help to conjure up another devil to turn or fight this one, or we will all die.
Keep temptations from Ro-Vijar's hands and he'd be less likely to conjure up awkward ideas.
Keep temptations from RoVijar's hands and he'd be less likely to conjure up awkward ideas.
Troilus is saying that not even the finest strand of a spider's web can really be fit between the two Cressidas he is trying to conjure up.
And the man that can play the instrument of Earthrid would be able to conjure up the most astonishing forms, which are not phantasms, but realities.
There is no `tropical island paradise' I know of which remotely matches up to the fantasy ideal that such a phrase is meant to conjure up, or even to what we find described in holiday brochures.
He thought of it, then began to conjure up as vivid a mental image of it as possible.