Conjurer
['kʌndʒərə]
Definition
(n.) One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
(n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
(n.) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Juggler, enchanter, sorcerer, magician, necromancer, diviner, seer, wizard, charmer, exorcist.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a conjuror, denotes unpleasant experience will beset you in your search for wealth and happiness.
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Examples
- Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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 Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch, or a wand to a conjurer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I'm here and there, and where not, like the conjurer's half-crown in the lady's handkercher. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I am also to take it as a matter of fact that the proposal to withdraw from the engagement came, in the first instance, from YOU? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I wish to express my gratitude also to Miss Florence Bonnet for aid in the correction of the manuscript. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is also said that one man to-day, with the aid of a steam engine, performs the work of 120 men in the last century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He took the letters that spelled the first word, and putting them in their proper order tied them together with a string. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At length a veteran officer spelled it over deliberately and shook his head three or four times and said that in his opinion it was seditious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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