conjure

verb

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Pronunciation: /ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/ / /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə/ / /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ/

noun

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”).

The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

verb

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”).

To perform magic tricks.
“He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.”
To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
To practice black magic.
“"Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."”
To enchant or bewitch.
To evoke.
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;...”
To 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.”
To conspire or plot.
“Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.”