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Definition of Conjury
1. Noun. Calling up a spirit or devil.
Generic synonyms: Magic, Thaumaturgy
Specialized synonyms: Evocation, Summoning
Derivative terms: Conjure, Conjure, Conjure, Invoke
Definition of Conjury
1. n. The practice of magic; enchantment.
Definition of Conjury
1. Noun. conjuration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conjury
1. magic [n CONJURIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conjury
Literary usage of Conjury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... magical agency, conjury, magic; charm, spell; (-temppu) conjuring trick; ...
by conjury, by (1. through) magic art. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... at the wave of the enchanted wand—that is to say, the dissect- ing-needle—of
the biologist. All of which savors of conjury, but is really only ..."
3. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... exercising the same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind, making the
fiction of apostolic authority to bind and loose, as prolific in acres as ..."
4. American Literature by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer (1901)
"Farther yet from him was it to see the images of beauty or terror which Poe saw
beyond the veil of life. He had no power of conjury over the spirit world. ..."
5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"The fifth invective reveals the more familiar trick of finding by conjury an
article previously concealed. The perpetrator of this fraud is described as ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... while sovereigns, at the head of armies, grovel in the dust and offer abject
submission for the kiss of peace; exercising the same conjury over ignorant ..."
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