conjure
verbnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə//
- United Kingdom//ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə//
- United States//ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ//
To perform magic tricks.
verb
- 1
To perform magic tricks.
He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
- 2
To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
We all technically have the ability to conjure, just like Caine. It just comes naturally to him, but requires a lot more skill and concentration for us.
- 3
archaicTo practice black magic.
"Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
- 4
archaicTo enchant or bewitch.
- 5
To evoke.
- 6
To imagine or picture in the mind.
There was a deep silence, while Helen's vivid fancy conjured up the scene. She knew the small neat room—she had been with Mrs. Palmer to see it; the cheerful garden filled with flowers, the hum of the distant play-ground, the rosy clusters of an acacia-tree, whose branches almost came in at the window;...
- 7
archaicTo make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
- 8
obsoleteTo conspire or plot.
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.
Etymology
From Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, from Latin coniūrō (“to swear together; conspire”), from con- (“with, together”) + iūro (“to swear or take an oath”).
noun
- 1
The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
Forms
- past tense
- conjured
- past participle
- conjured
- present participle
- conjuring
- third person singular
- conjures