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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
conjure .
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Examples
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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
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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
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_ 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
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"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
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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
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_ 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
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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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