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Meanings of conjuror in English
Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.
Synonyms
Examples for "magician"
Examples for "magician"
1
Paul McGinley must wish he was a magician, able to distort reality.
2
This wasn't the first time a magician worked for a western government.
3
As far as I was concerned, this made Charlie an absolute magician.
4
Whether or not he was also a magician is a moot question.
5
The awe of the magician became the stricken panic of the woman.
1
William had met the conjurer at various parties and despised him utterly.
2
If it's some of Jouret's far-famed magic, I'll say he's some conjurer.
3
To secure such power, Hugh, the conjurer, ate the flesh of eagles.
4
Outina's conjurer was of the number, and had well-nigh ruined the enterprise.
5
Why, it is an old trick that any wayside conjurer can do.
1
Raistlin gestured like an illusionist showing off a trick to the crowd.
2
He wrote: Like the TV illusionist, he wants you to believe something unbelievable.
3
The smile vanished from the illusionist's face as he felt his balance go.
4
My dear, you should know by now: an illusionist never gives away his secrets.
5
Fashion is about illusion and Kate is a brilliant illusionist.
1
Had Pierre been a prestidigitator and had he merely said presto!
2
You call me a prestidigitator, a fraud-youshall suffer for that!
3
The same audience would applaud Paderewski or a great prestidigitator.
4
Such a prestidigitator as Signor Fantoccini has only to say-Presto
5
That God is a juggler-heis the infinite prestidigitator.
1
The Conjure man had not spoken to him, that was certain.
2
"Who told you I could?" the Conjure man inquired sharply.
3
"We just call him Old Pappy-he's a preacher, and some folks say a conjure man, too."
Usage of conjuror in English
1
I don't know if you have ever seen a really good conjuror-
2
Nor was this all; both tymbesteres and conjuror were fortune-tellers by profession.
3
From the top of the ladder, he produced trees like a conjuror.
4
I will now give a few stories illustrative of the conjuror's power.
5
Alle I woulde say is, I ne'er set up for a conjuror.
6
They were dealt by the players; the conjuror never touched them.
7
So had the conjuror declared; and so these misguided heathens believed.
8
According to Weyer, the conjuror's ring can force him to tell the truth.
9
The news of Toret's conjuror frequenting the sages' guild did not surprise him.
10
The conjuror stood behind the dog's partner, and never went near the animal.
11
The conjuror who reveals his mechanism is no longer a conjuror.
12
When at the river's brink the conjuror was to cry out:-
13
The conjuror hemmed, and, waving his wand, took up a pile of halfpence.
14
The conjuror's bread was at stake, but he was equal to the occasion.
15
Maggie is a clever child, but she cannot toss knives with a conjuror.
16
A conjuror of that name was just then among London's attractions.
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