# conjurer
## English
### Alternative forms

* conjuror
* conjurour (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʌnd͡ʒəɹə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

conjurer (plural conjurers)
* One who conjures, a magician.
** July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
    With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
** c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.
* One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
** 1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
* One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
* (obsolete, often ironic) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
** 1709 April 23 – 1710 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], The Tatler, number 17; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick […] is composed of Men only, and not of HorsesThe spelling has been modernized.
* A cooking appliance comprising a pot (large or small) with a gridiron wielded beneath it, like a brazier, used for cooking methods such as broiling.

#### Translations
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

conjurer
* to beseech, to beg
    Je vous en conjure !I beseech you!
* to ward off
* to conspire, to plot, to conjure
* (magic) to conjure

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “conjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* conjuror, conjeroure, conjurare, conjowrere

### Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman conjurour; equivalent to conjuren +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rɛːr(ə)/, /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rər(ə)/, /ˈkundʒəˌrɛːr(ə)/, /ˈkundʒərər(ə)/

### Noun

conjurer
* conjurer, magician
* exorcist

#### Descendants

* English: conjurer, conjuror

#### References

* “conjū̆rē̆re, -ǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old French
### Verb

conjurer
* to beseech, to beg
** c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Marie l'Egypcienne:Je te conjur de Dieu le roiI beg of you, by God the king.

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.