Conjuration

Word CONJURATION
Character 11
Hyphenation con ju ra tion
Pronunciations /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Conjuration"

What do we mean by conjuration?

The act or art of conjuring. noun

A magic spell or incantation. noun

A magic trick or magical effect. noun

A solemn appeal; an entreaty. noun

A conspiracy; a plot; a league for criminal ends. noun

The act of calling on or invoking lay a sacred name; adjuration; supplication; solemn entreaty. noun

A magical form of words used with the view of evoking supernatural aid; an incantation; an enchantment; a magic spell. noun

The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. noun

The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment. noun

A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. noun

Conjuring, legerdemain or magic noun

A magic trick noun

The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. noun

A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. noun

A ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect noun

An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers noun

Calling up a spirit or devil noun

Conjuring, legerdemain or magic.

A magic trick.

The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.

A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Conjuration

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The word "conjuration" in example sentences

He spoke a word of conjuration and the creature stood before him, ready to do his bidding. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

Harriot swore at the colonel for the veriest spoil-sport she had ever seen, and she whispered to me – "The reason he laughs is because he is afraid of our suspecting the truth of him, that he believes tout de bon in conjuration, and the devil, and all that." ❋ Unknown (1801)

I do not hesitate to assert that death itself were preferable to a condition of mind such as enslaves those who are the victims of that cruel superstitious belief known as conjuration, when from the very nature of its teachings they are cut off from all hope, and relegated to gloomy forebodings and despair. ❋ Unknown (1880)

But patience is besought, for vastly more than a face of unrivalled perfection, the conjuration is a woman who yet lives in history as such ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)

And you know that what we call scientific knowledge is not any kind of conjuration, as people sometimes suppose, but it is simply the application of the same principles of common sense that we apply to common knowledge, carried out, if I may so speak, to knowledge which is uncommon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words. ❋ Howard Williams (N/A)

The fable was started by Laplace, who invented the "conjuration", though he tried to tone for his untruthfulness by omitting the phrase in the fourth edition of his "Essai philosophique" (see LAPLACE). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Many of them believe in what they call "conjuration," tricking, and witchcraft; and some of them pretend to understand the art, and say that by it they can prevent their masters from exercising their will over their slaves. ❋ Unknown (1849)

Once accustomed to consider scientific investigation as essentially consisting in the study of universals, men did not drop this habit of thought when they ceased to regard universals as possessing an independent existence: and even those who went the length of considering them as mere names, could not free themselves from the notion that the investigation of truth consisted entirely or partly in some kind of conjuration or juggle with those names. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

All this is done as a kind of conjuration, which they hope will have the effect of causing the barren woman to become fertile "(519. 318 ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)

Of course the apparent point of Cheng's Tapei show is that such a divide between the interior (spiritual) and exterior (physical) forms is an entirely arbitrary conjuration of the mind, and that without this divide posed, faith and science can be reconciled. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

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