Word Finder - conjuring

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To perform magic tricks.

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He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.

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To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.

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To practice black magic.

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To enchant or bewitch.

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To evoke.

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To imagine or picture in the mind.

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• envisage
• imagine
• picture
• visualize

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To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.

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To conspire or plot.

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(gerund of conjure) An act in which something is conjured

The miracles of Jesus are not just bizarre conjuring tricks.

What may broadly be called "conjuring" is a much more probable explanation of most of the recorded phenomena; and in the vast majority of cases the witnesses do not seem to have duly appreciated the possibilities of conjuring, and have consequently neither taken sufficient precautions to exclude it nor allowed for the accidental circumstances which may on any particular occasion favour special tricks or illusions.

It was for her sake, he said, that the Greeks and Barbarians fought, deluding themselves with an image of truth, for the real being was then present with the First God.3 By such specious allegories and Grecian fables Simon deceived many, while at the same time he astounded them by his magic. A description is given of how he made a familiar spirit for himself by conjuring the soul out of a boy and keeping his image in his bedroom, and many instances of his feats of magic are given.

Logarithms - log tables - classic oldfashioned conjuring trick for doing hard sums like magic.

In these degenerate days their supernatural powers consist chiefly in conjuring, sooth-saying, and feats of jugglery, by which they seldom fail in imposing upon a credulous public. (3) Sannyasis, devotees who" renounce "earthly concerns, an order not confined either to the Brahmanical caste or to the Saiva persuasion.

So some may assume such aircraft to be the tramp steamers of the skies, conjuring up a picture of old aerial rust buckets.

Wine has an innate elegance about it, conjuring up images of Old Italy, jazz music, and relaxing nights in a bubble bath surrounded by candles.

The differences may not be quite as dramatic (fast food joints are kings when it comes to conjuring up ridiculously unhealthy dishes) but it's useful Eat This Not That-type information nonetheless.

Sparks fly when this band hits the recording studio and their songs reflect the members' emotional and inventive conjuring talents, much to the pleasure of their multitude of followers.

Besides the general arguments for supposing that the physical phenomena of spiritualism may be due to conjuring, there are two special reasons which gain in force as time goes on.

The well-known Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly was taken down in 1906, and the permanent conjuring entertainment for which (besides picture exhibitions) it was noted was removed elsewhere.

Healing the sick and conjuring the evil spirit, they traversed different countries and spread their apocryphal literature along with some of the books of the Old Testament, deeply influencing the religious spirit of the nations, and preparing them for the Reformation.

Fortunately the birds soon become tame in confinement, and a little patience will enable an attentive observer to satisfy himself as to the process, the result of which at first seems almost as unaccountable as that of a clever conjuring trick.