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Definition: Conjure |
ConjureVerb1. Evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain". 2. Ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons". 3. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conjure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[o^]n*j[=u]r"), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Conjured(-j[=u]rd"); Conjuring.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ConjureSynonyms: adjure (v), arouse (v), beseech (v), bid (v), bring up (v), cabal (v), call down (v), call forth (v), complot (v), conjure up (v), conspire (v), entreat (v), invoke (v), machinate (v), press (v), put forward (v), raise (v), stir (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; (steal); conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon. |
Imagination | Visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen. |
Repute | Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with. |
Request | Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones. |
Sorcery | Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conjure |
| English words defined with "conjure": Conjured ♦ To conjure up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conjure": Open, Sesame ♦ SEAL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Conjure" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (conjures). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Conjure Woman (1926) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Does the thought of socks and underwear conjure up concerns about bacteria? Yes, microbes can reside and multiply in textile fabrics. But no matter-ARS researchers have developed treatments for cotton textiles with compounds containing peroxides. they resist bacteria and, as a bonus, resist fungi that cause athlete's foot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Whatever humanity I might conjure up against it was all factitious, and concerned my philosophy more than my feelings. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
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| "Conjure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.98% of the time. "Conjure" is used about 168 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 77.98% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.64% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.6% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conjure": a name to conjure with ♦ conjure away ♦ conjure forth ♦ conjure man ♦ conjure up ♦ conjure up an egg out of a hat ♦ name to conjure with ♦ To conjure up. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
conjure one | 30 |
conjure | 13 |
conjure lyrics one | 11 |
conjure spirits | 3 |
conjure woman | 3 |
conjure from lyrics moon one tears | 2 |
conjure from moon mp3 one tears | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "conjure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thërres (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, convene, convoke, cry, exclaim, give a cry, hail, holler, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, exclaim, hail, holler, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), sjell në mendje, ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, create, exalt, excite, feed up, heal, incur, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet), ndjell (augur, cluck, entice, evoke, forebode), namatis, i drejtoj me thirrje, bëj magji (hex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مارس السحر (charm, hex, spellbind), ناشد (adjure, appeal, implore, invoke), سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), إستحضر الأرواح, شعوذ (juggle, mountebank, quack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | умолявам (adjure, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, invoke, obtest, plead, pray, supplicate), апелирам към, правя фокуси (hocus pocus, juggle), правя магии (hoodoo), призовавам (appeal, call down, call on, call out, exhort, invoke, summon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 變戲法 (juggle, perform conjuring tricks), 使"法 , 召" (Beckon, Beckoned, Beckoning, Conjured, Conjuring, Evoke, Evoked, Evoking, summon, Summoned, summoning, summons, Summonses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zapřísahat (adjure, entreat, forswear, implore), vymyslet (conceive, concoct, devise, invent, lay), kouzlit (perform magic), èarovat (spell, voodoo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سوگنددادن (Adjure, Administration), جادوکردن (Enchant), التماس کردن به (Implore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taikoa (bewitch, practise witchcraft, use magic), loitsia (callup, enchant, practise magic), loihtia (cast a spell on, conjure up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conjurer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beschwören (adjure, attest, beg, beseech, charm, conjure up, exorcise, implore, invoke, swear, swear to, to conjure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξορκίζω (adjure, entreat, exorcise, exorcize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"צי' על י"י קסמים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | varázsol (to conjure), ünnepélyesen felszólít (adjure, to conjure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fare incantesimi, fare giochi di prestigio, far apparire come per incanto, evocare (call forth, evoke, invoke, to conjure up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo doalgaanee, faaishnaghey (forebode, forecast, foretell, predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | trylle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onjurecay conjurar (adjure, conspire, lay), invocar espíritos, implorar (beg, beseech, crave, deprecate, file, implore, invoke, petition, pray, supplicate), encantar (allure, appeal, becharm, bewitch, charm, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, fetch, flatter, glamor, glamour, lure, rapture). (various references) conjura (adjure, beseech, entreat, raise), chema (ask, call, call down, call up, challenge, chuckle, convene, convoke, entreat, hail, muster, page, ring, shout, signify, summon), invoca (allege, call down, invocate, invoke, plead, pretend, submit), implora (adjure, beseech, crave, entreat, implore, supplicate), fermeca (allure, bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), face sã aparã. (various references) вызывать в воображении, вызывать (bring, bring about, bring forth, call, call in, challenge, cite, engender, entail, evoke, evoked, exert, give rise to, induce, involve, produce, provoke, ring for, summon, whistle up), заклинать (adjure, exorcise, exorcize, implore), заниматься магией, показывать фокусы (juggle). (various references) prizivati (evoke, imprecate), preklinjati (adjure, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, pray, supplicate). (various references) conjurar (adjure, attest, get rid of, invoke, lay), cambiar (alter, back, barter, be exchanged, break, break up, change, chop, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, interchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer). (various references) trolla (bewitch, charm, do conjuring tricks, troll), bönfalla (adjure, beseech, entreat, implore, plead, pray, Sue). (various references) yolunu bulmak (find one's bearings, get around, get one's bearings, manage, unthread), yalvarmak (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, crave, desire, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, plead, pray, sit up and beg, solicit, supplicate), ruh çağırmak (conjure up, evoke, raise), rica etmek (adjure, appeal, ask, beg, beseech, bespeak, desire, entreat, implore, intercede, petition, plead, pray, request, Sue, sue for, supplicate), hokkabazlık yapmak (juggle), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), afsunlamak (bewitch, enchant, hex). (various references) чаклувати, благати (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, crave, cry, deprecate, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, obsecrate, petition, plead, supplicate), показувати фокуси (juggle, stunt). (various references) aswyno (beseech, charm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conjurare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conjure": conjured, conjurer, conjurers, conjures. (additional references) | |
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"Conjure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concure, concurve, conduire, congur, congure, conjer, conjole, conjore, conjort, conjours, conjur, consure, conture, conuer, conur, nonjury, onjune, Shinjuro. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conjure" (pronounced kÄ"njer) |
| 3 | -n j er | arranger, Avenger, challenger, changer, danger, deringer, Derringer, endanger, exchanger, ginger, Granger, harbinger, hinger, injure, manger, messenger, passenger, plunger, Ranger, scavenger, stranger. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-j-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: jounce. | |
-2 letters: cornu, crone, junco, ounce, recon, rouen. | |
-3 letters: cero, cone, core, corn, cure, curn, ecru, euro, jeon, once, roue, rune, unco. | |
-4 letters: con, cor, cue, cur, ecu, eon, ern, jeu, joe, jun, nor, one, orc, ore, our, rec, roc, roe, rue, run, urn. | |
-5 letters: en, er, jo, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-j-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: conjured, conjurer, conjures, jouncier. | |
+2 letters: conjurers. | |
+3 letters: conjecture, surjection. | |
+4 letters: conjectural, conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, conjuncture, surjections. | |
+5 letters: conjecturers, conjecturing, conjunctures. | |
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