Conjure

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conjure \Con"jure\, v. i.
     To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to
     juggle; to charm.
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           She conjures; away with her.             --Shak.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           I conjure you, let him know,
           Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conjure \Con*jure"\, v. i.
     To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
     [A Latinism]
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           Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons
           Conjured against the Highest.            --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the
           devil into.                              --Shak.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conjure
       v 1: 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}]
       2: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to
          become good persons" [syn: {bid}, {beseech}, {entreat}, {adjure},
           {press}]
       3: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear
          together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"
          [syn: {conspire}, {cabal}, {complot}, {machinate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "conjure":
     adjure, appeal, appeal to, bamboozle, beg, beguile, beseech,
     betray, bid come, bluff, brace, cajole, call, call away, call back,
     call for, call for help, call forth, call in, call on, call out,
     call together, call up, call up spirits, call upon, cheat on,
     circumvent, cite, clamor for, conjure up, conjure up spirits,
     convene, convoke, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, deceive, delude,
     demand, diddle, double-cross, dupe, entreat, evoke, forestall,
     gammon, get around, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug,
     impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, indent, invoke, juggle,
     kneel to, let down, mock, muster, muster up, obtest, order up,
     outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, page, pigeon,
     play one false, plead, plead for, pray, preconize,
     put something over, raise, raise ghosts, recall, requisition,
     run to, send after, send for, serve, snow, string along, subpoena,
     summon, summon forth, summon spirits, summon up, summons,
     supplicate, take in, trick, two-time