conjuration

How To Use conjuration In A Sentence

• I do not hesitate to assert that death itself were preferable to a condition of mind such as enslaves those who are the victims of that cruel superstitious belief known as conjuration, when from the very nature of its teachings they are cut off from all hope, and relegated to gloomy forebodings and despair. Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
• Qui simul fecere naufragium, aut una pertulere vincula vel consilii conjurationisve societate junguntur, invicem amant: Brutum et Cassium invicem infensos Caesarianus dominatus conciliavit. Anatomy of Melancholy
• It was not long, before hee heard of this conjuration made against him; and therefore hee speedily mustered up all his forces, ere he would be encompassed by two such potent kings, and marched on to meete the King of Cappadocia, leaving his Ladie and Wife (for her safety) at Lajazzo, in the custodie of a true and loyall Servant of his. The Decameron
• The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration. LORD PRESTIMION
• At Fulvia, insolentiae Curii causa cognita, tale periculum rei publicae haud occultum habuit, sed sublato auctore [131] de Catilinae conjuratione quae quoque modo audierat compluribus narravit. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
• The fable was started by Laplace, who invented the "conjuration", though he tried to tone for his untruthfulness by omitting the phrase in the fourth edition of his "Essai philosophique" (see LAPLACE). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• Their secret priests therefore served the lust of the senses and practiced magic with all their might, employ conjurations and spells, concoct love potions and methods of seduction, and engage in dream-interpretation and dark prestidigitator's arts.
• They say the Autarch wants some people to remain in each to accent the reality of the scene, and so his archimage, Father Inire, has invested them with a conjuration. The Shadow of the Torturer
• Harriot swore at the colonel for the veriest spoil-sport she had ever seen, and she whispered to me – "The reason he laughs is because he is afraid of our suspecting the truth of him, that he believes tout de bon in conjuration, and the devil, and all that. Belinda
• This includes any sort of ‘wishing’ magic, be it through sigels, conjurations, prayer, direct energy work, or anything that is meant to ‘make something happen’ or to cause a change in another.