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Definitions

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of conjure.

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Examples

  • Hands, or rather his Fore − feet he wrote strange Figures and Cyphers, wherewith he conjur'd up Spirits, and inchanted People, and so got 'em into his Den: For he could not run fast enough to catch anybody, his Toes being rotted, or broken off, which was the reason he often miss'd of his

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Hands, or rather his Fore − feet he wrote strange Figures and Cyphers, wherewith he conjur'd up Spirits, and inchanted People, and so got 'em into his Den: For he could not run fast enough to catch anybody, his Toes being rotted, or broken off, which was the reason he often miss'd of his

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • _ I'll Charm you, House-wife, here lies the Charm, that conjur'd this Fellow in I'm sure on't, come out you Rascal, do so:

    The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

  • "But I wish'd the whole Realm had been d – d at a blow [.]" I conjur'd him, when this operation was done,

    Satan and His Agents 1794

  • Then my Mother conjur'd, press'd and commanded me, by any means whatever, to save my self:

    Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

  • _ Hold, I bar that cast, Child; no, I'm none of those Spirits that can be conjur'd into a Wedding-ring, and dance in the dull matrimonial

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • b force it out, my heart muft rend j when conjur'd by fuch a friend — ik, Peter, how my foul is rackt J

    The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768

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