conjure

verb

/ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/UK/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, from Latin coniūrō (“to swear together; conspire”), from con- (“with, together”) + iūro (“to swear or take an oath”).

derived from coniūrō
derived from conjurer
inherited from conjuren

Definitions

1
To perform magic tricks.
- He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
3
To practice black magic.
- "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
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1. To enchant or bewitch.
2. To evoke.
3. To imagine or picture in the mind.
4. 7
  To make an urgent request to
  To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
  - I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
  - Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
5. 8
  To conspire or plot.
  - Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.
6. The practice of magic
  The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

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Derived

conjurable, conjurement, conjurer, conjuror, conjuress, conjure up, conjure with, conjurour, name to conjure with, reconjure, unconjured, upconjure, word to conjure with

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conjure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at conjure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at conjure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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