How To Use Conjuration In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration.
LORD PRESTIMION
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Had they discovered some conjuration previously unknown to them, which opened doors where there had only been solid walls?
EVERVILLE
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Oh, but I don't have any prejudice - if sigils don't use energy reserves, I'll settle for conjurations, evocations, invocations, sex magic… but it must be a magic item.
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He was sure there would be phosphorus there; phosphorus was needed in most critical summons and conjurations.
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It's a spirit of some sort - that or a conjuration.
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And you know that what we call scientific knowledge is not any kind of conjuration, as people sometimes suppose, but it is simply the application of the same principles of common sense that we apply to common knowledge, carried out, if I may so speak, to knowledge which is uncommon.
Essays
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Bruno and Buffalmaco, did steale a young Brawne from Calandrino, and for his recovery thereof, they used a kinde of pretended conjuration, with Pilles made of Ginger and strong Malmesey.
The Decameron
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Indeed, there may be a relationship between the structure of magical conjurations and legal language - conjuration of course being a legal term…
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But he ceased not to repeat conjurations and they to call for help, till the two caskets flew in sunder, the fragments flying about, and there came forth two men, with pinioned hands saying,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I mentioned on this thread the relationship of the Goetia to both the Greco-Roman & Arabic magical traditions and it might be useful to investigate the manner in which conjurations were structured in say, the theurgic tradition.
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Figulo consulibus, [94] primo singulos appellare, hortari alios, alios temptare; opes suas, imparatam rem publicam, magna praemia conjurationis docere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Among the Eskimo the _angakok_, or shaman, trains his child from infancy in the art of sorcery, taking him upon his knee during his incantations and conjurations.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration.
LORD PRESTIMION
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They lit no fire, for the air was warm and gentle; a single conjuration of cold fire rested between them.
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Under the provisions of the edict and earlier French law, those who used spells and conjurations could still be prosecuted, as could those who purported to lift the spells cast by others.
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In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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I myself once rebelled against King Solomon and he sent against me this monk, the only being who could overcome me with his craft and his conjurations and his gramarye; then he imprisoned me, and since that time I have been his vassal.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A more vernacular version of such a conjuration can be found in his account of the casting of the Perseus, wherein the statue comes to life on the artist's invocation of Christ's name.
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He strongly believed in the contents of the literature and practised the spells and conjurations elucidated in the texts.
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But patience is besought, for vastly more than a face of unrivalled perfection, the conjuration is a woman who yet lives in history as such
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
Publication Date List
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Thaumaturgy means, ‘wonder working’ and refers to the conjuration of spirits, casting of spells, blessing, cursing, curing and harming through practical magick.
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He spoke a word of conjuration and the creature stood before him, ready to do his bidding.
Masked
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Healing was not creation or conjuration, it was simply speeding up the body's natural processes or strengthening what was already there.
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Between the minor ‘outing’ and the conjuration of the ‘fairy’, she was exhausted.
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Also, perhaps the conjuration of spirits (gods, demons, angels) is also part of a ritual to attract the attention of the designers so that you can communicate a desire to change the program.
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She got progressively better, and her conjurations lasted longer each day.
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Her conjurations are clearly earth-centered.
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She overheard their conspiracy and intervened to thwart their plan by placing diversions in their path - attacking hounds; rich, tempting raiment dangling on elusive clotheslines; and many other such conjurations.
