[syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conjure \Con*jure"\ (k[o^]n*j[=u]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Conjured (-j[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conjuring.] [F.
conjurer, fr. L. conjurare to swear together, to conspire;
con- + jurare to swear. See Jury.]
To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to
implore earnestly; to adjure.
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I conjure you, let him know,
Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conjure \Con*jure"\, v. i.
To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
[A Latinism]
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Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons
Conjured against the Highest. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. t.
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.
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The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the
devil into. --Shak.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conjure \Con"jure\, v. i.
To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to
juggle; to charm.
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She conjures; away with her. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
conjure
v 1: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by
magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured
wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the
mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke,
evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put
forward, call forth]
2: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to
become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat,
adjure, press, conjure]
3: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear
together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn:
conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "conjure":
adjure, appeal, appeal to, bamboozle, beg, beguile, beseech,
betray, bid come, bluff, brace, cajole, call, call away, call back,
call for, call for help, call forth, call in, call on, call out,
call together, call up, call up spirits, call upon, cheat on,
circumvent, cite, clamor for, conjure up, conjure up spirits,
convene, convoke, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, deceive, delude,
demand, diddle, double-cross, dupe, entreat, evoke, forestall,
gammon, get around, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug,
impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, indent, invoke, juggle,
kneel to, let down, mock, muster, muster up, obtest, order up,
outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, page, pigeon,
play one false, plead, plead for, pray, preconize,
put something over, raise, raise ghosts, recall, requisition,
run to, send after, send for, serve, snow, string along, subpoena,
summon, summon forth, summon spirits, summon up, summons,
supplicate, take in, trick, two-time