5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conjure \Con*jure"\, v. i.
To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
[A Latinism]
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured
against the Highest. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. i.
To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to
juggle; to charm.
She conjures; away with her --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
I conjure you let him know Whate'er was done against
him Cato did it --Addison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conjure
v : evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment";
"he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"
[syn: {raise}, {conjure up}, {invoke}, {stir}, {call down},
{arouse}, {bring up}, {put forward}, {call forth}]
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