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Definition: Conjuration |
ConjurationNoun1. Invoking a spirit or devil. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conjuration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Conjuration \Con`ju*ra"tion\, noun. [Latin expression conjuratio, compare to French conjuration.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ConjurationSynonyms: conjuring (n), conjury (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke. |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conjuration |
| English words defined with "conjuration": Powpow. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conjuration": Necromantic. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's an old conjuration that the ancient Turks used to communicate with the dying. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Conjuration de Cinq-Mars (1957) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Conjuration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conjuration" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
conjuration | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conjuration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thirrje solemne, magji (bewitchment, black magic, cantrip, enchantment, glamor, glamour, hex, incantation, magic, medicine, necromancy, pishogue, sorcery, spell, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الشعوذة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | викане на зли духове, магия (bewitchment, black art, cantrip, charm, enchantment, hex, magic, necromancy, obi, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry), заклинание (adjuration, charm, exorcism, incantation, invocation, obtestation, paternoster, spell), апел (appeal, cry, plea, proclamation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zaklínání. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | manaus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beschwörung (adjuration, charming, entreaty, exorcism, incantation, invocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξορκισμόσ (exorcism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megidézés (subpoena, summons), idézés (blue, citation, quotation, subpoena, summons, warrant to appear, writ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incantesimo (charm, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, spell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onjurationcay conjuro (spell), conjura (conspiracy, plot), imprecação (oath), feitiço (abracadabra, bewitchment, charm, enchantment, fetish, juju, sorcery, witchcraft, witchery), exorcismo (abracadabra, exorcism), encantamento (abracadabra, charm, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, juju, magic, spell). (various references) invocare (invocation), incantaţie (incantation). (various references) заклинание (exorcism, incantation, invocation, obsecration, obtestation, pishogue). (various references) prizivanje (invocation), preklinjanje (adjuration, entreaty, obsecration, supplication), magija (magic), čini (ju-ju, magic, weird). (various references) conjuración. (various references) besvärjelse (adjuration, incantation, invocation, sorcery). (various references) yalvarma (adjuration, appeal, begging, cry, entreaty, invocation, plea, pleading, prayer, praying, supplication), sihir (charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, magic, sorcery, sortilege, spell, witchery), ruh çağırma (evocation), rica etme (desire, requesting), hokkabazlık (conjuring trick, hanky panky, illusionism, jugglery, legerdemain, parlor tricks, pass, prestidigitation, slapstick, sleight), büyücülük (diablerie, magic, myalism, necromancy, sorcery, the black art, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry). (various references) чарівництво (bewitchment, cantrip, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry), заклинання (adjuration, charm, exorcism, incantation, mantra, paternoster, spell), благання (adjuration, entreaty, obsecration, obtestation, oration, petition, supplication, vow). (various references) sự phù phép lời khấn, lời tụng niệm lời kêu gọi trịnh trọng, lời cầu khẩn (deprecation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conjuration": conjurations. (additional references) | |
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"Conjuration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: centuriation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "conjuration" (pronounced 'Con`ju*ra"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-j-n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: conation, conjoint, continua, continuo, countian, couranto, junction, nonactor. | |
-4 letters: actinon, auction, carotin, cartoon, caution, conjoin, contain, contour, coranto, cornuto, courant, crouton, curtain, janitor, nocturn, oration, rainout, ruction, touraco, unction, unicorn, unjoint. | |
-5 letters: action, anoint, anuric, aortic, aroint, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, carton, cation, citron, cojoin, contra, cornua, corona, cortin, craton, croton, incant, intron. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-j-n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: conjurations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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