Definitions

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  • verb To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic

Etymologies

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re- +‎ conjure

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Examples

  • However, in this cluttered forest of my 40s, what I cannot authentically reconjure is the ancient dream of brides, even with the Oprah fluffery of weekly “date nights,” when gauzy candlelight obscures the messy house, child talk is nixed and silky lingerie donned, so the two of you can look into each other’s eyes and feel that “spark” again.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • However, in this cluttered forest of my 40s, what I cannot authentically reconjure is the ancient dream of brides, even with the Oprah fluffery of weekly “date nights,” when gauzy candlelight obscures the messy house, child talk is nixed and silky lingerie donned, so the two of you can look into each other’s eyes and feel that “spark” again.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • However, in this cluttered forest of my 40s, what I cannot authentically reconjure is the ancient dream of brides, even with the Oprah fluffery of weekly “date nights,” when gauzy candlelight obscures the messy house, child talk is nixed and silky lingerie donned, so the two of you can look into each other’s eyes and feel that “spark” again.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • However, in this cluttered forest of my 40s, what I cannot authentically reconjure is the ancient dream of brides, even with the Oprah fluffery of weekly “date nights,” when gauzy candlelight obscures the messy house, child talk is nixed and silky lingerie donned, so the two of you can look into each other’s eyes and feel that “spark” again.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • All the more reason against Progressive seances attempting to reconjure that Geist for this Zeit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements 2010

  • All the more reason against Progressive seances attempting to reconjure that Geist for this Zeit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements 2010

  • It appeared as if all of Saigon were caught in a weird psychedelic time warp, desperately trying to reconjure its salad days, which were, perversely, during the height of the war.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • And though, for many years confined to his bed by infirmity, he could conjure away the property of others, and, for a reward, reconjure it again.

    An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769

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