Conjurer

Definitions

1. One who conjures, a magician.
2. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
3. One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
4. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
   ironic, obsolete, often
5. 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.

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Examples

“July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ 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.”

“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⟳.”

“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".”

“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 Horses”

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