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UK
/kˌʌndʒjʊɹˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- calling up a spirit or devil
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect
How To Use conjuration In A Sentence
- Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 Publication Date List
- Among the Eskimo the _angakok_, or shaman, trains his child from infancy in the art of sorcery, taking him upon his knee during his incantations and conjurations. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
- The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration. LORD PRESTIMION
- They lit no fire, for the air was warm and gentle; a single conjuration of cold fire rested between them.
- Under the provisions of the edict and earlier French law, those who used spells and conjurations could still be prosecuted, as could those who purported to lift the spells cast by others.
- In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
- I myself once rebelled against King Solomon and he sent against me this monk, the only being who could overcome me with his craft and his conjurations and his gramarye; then he imprisoned me, and since that time I have been his vassal. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- A more vernacular version of such a conjuration can be found in his account of the casting of the Perseus, wherein the statue comes to life on the artist's invocation of Christ's name.
- He strongly believed in the contents of the literature and practised the spells and conjurations elucidated in the texts.
- But patience is besought, for vastly more than a face of unrivalled perfection, the conjuration is a woman who yet lives in history as such The Prince of India — Volume 01
