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US
/ˈkɑndʒɝ/
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[ UK /kˈʌndʒɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌndʒɐ/ ]
VERB
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ask for or request earnestly
The prophet bid all people to become good persons -
engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
They conspired to overthrow the government -
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
he conjured wild birds in the air
raise the specter of unemployment
call down the spirits from the mountain
How To Use conjure In A Sentence
- This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
- Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
- The conjurer took a kitchen knife, pushed it slowly through the red hatbox. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
- Times_ will be taken at the next performance of _Parsifal_ by Mr. WATERER, the great floricultural expert, and Mr. DEVANT, the eminent conjurer, with Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
- Stage magicians and conjurers are of course illusionists, not magicians in the historical context of the word.
- And on this ship was a magician, a conjurer, whose function was to entertain the passengers.
- conjurers are experts at misdirection
- Do you see yourself/the publisher as a magician, a conjurer?
- Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
- With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
