Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that performs magic tricks; a magician.
- n. A sorcerer or sorceress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One who conjures, a magician.
- n. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
- n. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. . One bound by a solemn oath; a conjurator; a conspirator.
- n. One who solemnly enjoins or conjures.
- n. An enchanter; one who practises magic or uses secret charms; a magician.
- n. Hence One who practises legerdemain; a juggler.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- n. a witch doctor who practices conjury
Etymologies
Examples
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This circumstance diverted Mrs. Thomas, who imagined, that the man whom they called a conjurer, must have more sense than they understood.
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a medium, some call a conjurer, some call a charlatan and a quack.
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Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets.
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At this moment he reminded himself of Jama, the village sword conjurer; the image disgusted him.
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Everyone in the hotel was horrified when they knew that the conjurer was a traitor and a spy.
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Gurdon had heard that sort of hands before described as conjurer's hands.
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Ketina protested, "The conjurer is a liar, his words are not true; they might have been true, had there been two rumbling noises."
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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The play is in some ways a difficult one: we are left wondering whether or not Chesterton believes in magic; if he does, then the conjurer need not have been so upset that he had gained so much power of a psychic nature; if he does not, then the conjurer was a clever fraud or a brilliant hypnotist.
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One day he went to a old man that wuz called a conjurer; this old man told him that somebody had stole the sweat-band out of his cap and less he got it back, something terrible would happen.
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In the middle of this great space we sat bound side by side, sitting upon the ground, the Surveyor-General and I, coats off and bare headed; behind me the larger of my negroes; before us was a great fire and around about the fire the conjurer, that is, an old gray Indian, a priest among them, who is commonly a magician, yes, even conjures up the devil himself.
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