conjuring

Verb

conjure (third-person singular simple present conjures, present participle conjuring, simple past and past participle conjured)

1. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
   • He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
2. (transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
   • We all technically have the ability to conjure, just like Caine. It just comes naturally to him, but requires a lot more skill and concentration for us.2026 March 20, Gooseworx, “hjsakldfhl” (21:28 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 8, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock)
3. (archaic, intransitive) To practice black magic.
   • "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7
4. (archaic, transitive) To enchant or bewitch.

   Synonyms:

   bespell, ensorcell, enspell, bechat, becry, beglammer, bewitch, enchant, englamour, forspeak

5. (transitive) To evoke.
6. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
   • There was a deep silence, while Helen's vivid fancy conjured up the scene. She knew the small neat room—she had been with Mrs. Palmer to see it; the cheerful garden filled with flowers, the hum of the distant play-ground, the rosy clusters of an acacia-tree, whose branches almost came in at the...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 51

   Synonyms:

   envisage, imagine, picture, visualize

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