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▪ I. conjuring, vbl. n.
[f. conjure v. + -ing1. In senses 1, 2 (kənˈdʒʊərɪŋ), in 3 |ˈkʌndʒərɪŋ|.]
The action of the vb. conjure.
†1. Conspiring. Obs.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxix. 143 Nor other than confusion to their still coniuring fell.
2. Solemn appeal; adjuration.
a1300Cursor M. 17807 (Cott.) We þam sal thoru coniuring, Do tell us of his uprising. 1659Gauden Tears Ch. 132 These pious and pathetick conjurings, these divine prayings, and charitable beseechings.
3. a. Magical invocation; working of magic, performance of conjurer's tricks. Also fig.
c1300K. Alis. 345 Whiles he made conjuryng, Scheo saw..a dragon adoun lyght. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (1852) 63 There stode be-fore hym one that dwellyd in Charterus lane wyth a screpture on hys brest for coungerynge. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 128 In coniuring, iugling, or sorcerie. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. ii. (1840) 55 What manour of conjurings or enchantments they were that they made use of. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 6 The boldest feats of verbal conjuring. 1886Garenne (title) Art of Modern Conjuring, Magic, and Illusions.
b. attrib. Also fig.
1552Huloet, Coniurynge styck whych coniurers and sorcerers do vse in raysynge spirites. 1567Roper in Grindal's Rem. (1843) 211 To minister in those conjuring garments of popery. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 153 Saw his conjuring books burned before his face. 1713Swift On Himself, Clowns on scholars as on wizards look, And take a folio for a conj'ring book. 1842R. Barham Merch. Venice in Bentley's Misc. Apr. 434 Put his conjuring cap on,—considered the whole. 1879Queen 27 Dec. (Advt.), Largest assortment of conjuring tricks and puzzles. 1937Discovery May 137/2 They have the same power as the Frog Lizard of doing conjuring tricks with their tails, and seem to shed them at the least pretext. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Pract. Cats 30 Mr. Mistoffelees' Conjuring Turn.
▪ II. conjuring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That conjures or appeals in a sacred name.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxxi. §2 Those conjuring exhortations which Apostles..have uttered. 1813Scott Rokeby vi. xv, He restores The infant..With many a deep conjuring word, To Mortham.
2. That conjures, enchants, works magic.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 93 Sutch a coniuringe and charminge creature. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. x. (1870) 214 Each family or tribe has a wizard or conjuring doctor. |