# conjure
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, from Latin coniūrō (“I swear together; conspire”), from con- (“with, together”) + iūro (“I swear or take an oath”).

### Pronunciation

* Senses relating to magic tricks and imagination:
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ/
** Rhymes: -ʌndʒə(ɹ), -ɒndʒə(ɹ)
* Senses relating to religious or solemn actions:
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kənˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (General American) IPA: /kənˈd͡ʒʊɚ/

### Verb

conjure (third-person singular simple present conjures, present participle conjuring, simple past and past participle conjured)
* (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
    He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
* (transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
* (intransitive, archaic) To practice black magic.
** 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:"Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
* (transitive, archaic) To enchant or bewitch.
* (transitive) To evoke. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
    Synonyms: envisage, imagine, picture, visualize
** 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: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 window;...
* (transitive, archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2:I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
* (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.

#### Derived terms

* conjurable
* conjurement
* conjurer, conjuror
* conjuress
* conjure up
* conjure with
* conjurour
* name to conjure with
* reconjure
* unconjured
* upconjure
* word to conjure with

#### Translations
### Noun

conjure (uncountable)
* (African-American Vernacular) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

#### Derived terms

* conjureman
* conjurewoman

### Related terms

* conjuration

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/

### Verb

conjure
* inflection of conjurer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Middle English
### Verb

conjure
* Alternative form of conjuren

## Portuguese
### Verb

conjure
* inflection of conjurar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

conjure
* inflection of conjurar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative