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Meanings of conjury in English

Portuguese
conjuração
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encantament

Calling up a spirit or devil.

        conjuração
        Synonyms
        Examples for "conjuring"
        Examples for "conjuring"
        1
        It's not an easy thing, conjuring sea serpent pheromone, believe you me.
        James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
        2
        He'd been conjuring this idea for the better part of a week.
        Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
        3
        As in conjuring everything found was placed beforehand in the desired position.
        Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
        4
        In the midst of their conjuring, the Inquisition came down upon them.
        The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
        5
        Bellis could imagine their frantic work gauging aetherial currents, stoking and conjuring.
        The Scar
        1
        An invocation can also express thanks for past blessings from the deity.
        Witch School's First Degree
        2
        After this introductory invocation begins the real song in a different metre.
        The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
        3
        Brexit is the first invocation of the Article by a Member State.
        The Irish Times
        4
        After the invocation to the muse he thinks he hears her playing:
        The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
        5
        But the Egyptian seemed to address a silent invocation to the mummy.
        Idolatry: A Romance
        1
        Sechul Lath thought back to the power of his companion's conjuration.
        Forge of Darkness
        2
        His eyes even swam in moisture, as he repeated the conjuration:
        Sacrifice
        3
        I adjusted my light and started to read the conjuration from my notebook.
        Rivers of London
        4
        But now shouldn't he have some reason for summoning her beyond simple conjuration?
        Hemlock Grove
        5
        By statute of 1736, witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, and conjuration were abolished as crimes.
        Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
        Usage of conjury in English
        1
        She shuddered with the force of the conjury, and still Forsythia resisted.
        The bone palace
        2
        This sword, and my conjury... is that going to be enough?
        Sister of the dead
        3
        You primarily use ritual, but I work my conjury through artificing, creating useful tools.
        Sister of the dead
        4
        How many new insights into his conjury might he find in such vast repositories?
        Thief of lives
        5
        His chosen method of conjury was artificing, the making of objects and tools, and not spellcraft.
        Sister of the dead
        6
        Such a simple thing, he should have thought of this himself, but spell-work was not his strength in conjury.
        Sister of the dead
        7
        To do this, he would also have to be a master of conjury, with power I have never read of.
        Sister of the dead
        8
        Through long years of study, Chane knew of few reputed methods of conjury and thaumaturgy that might produce projection of thought.
        Sister of the dead
        9
        I do not know how it is triggered, but it could be almost any of the magics... conjury, thaumaturgy, maybe even alchemy by artificing.
        Thief of lives
        10
        Conjury, however, was a different matter.
        Thief of lives
        11
        Conjury was not outlawed like sorcery, but it was not as welcome as thaumaturgy or as revered as theurgy.
        Thief of lives
        Translations for conjury
        Conjury through the time