Meaning of Conjuration | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Conjuring, legerdemain or magic.
   countable, uncountable
2. A magic trick.
   countable, uncountable
3. The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event.”

“How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...”

“We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; […] Under this conjuration speak, my lord.”

“An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary”

“The conjuration of Catiline.”

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