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Conjure

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To combine together by an eath; to conspire; to confederate. [A Latinism] Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest. Milton.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers. The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into. Shak. To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. She conjures; away with her. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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