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US
/ˈkɑndʒəˌɹəɹ/
]
[ UK /kˈʌndʒjʊɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌndʒjʊɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a witch doctor who practices conjury
- someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
How To Use conjurer In A Sentence
- The one answer I had a hundred times in that hour to offer the interviewees was quite simple: ‘If you had seen those same phenomena performed by a stage conjurer, how would you respond?’
- Hemon is a maestro, a conjurer, a channeler of universes ... The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
- A single act of the conjurer entertains his audience.
- It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people. The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
- Some conjurers are even said to levitate or to have performed the famous Indian rope trick.
- There is, however, an expedient familiar to conjurers as "changing a card," which, with a little modification, is extensively used by the cardsharping fraternity under the name of "second dealing. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
- Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a Saint Ronan's Well
- Gurdon had heard that sort of hands before described as conjurer's hands. The Mystery of the Four Fingers
- And on this ship was a magician, a conjurer, whose function was to entertain the passengers.
- Fake wizard Lixal Laqavee, having tired of his life as a conjurer in a circus, decides to learn some real magic, with troublesome results that force him into a highly hazardous alliance with a deodand of dubious reliability and a ravenous hunger for human flesh. Archive 2009-07-01