conjurer

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• conjuror
• conjurour (obsolete, rare)

From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌnd͡ʒəɹə(ɹ)/

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conjurer (plural conjurers)

1. One who conjures, a magician.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises

     With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.

2. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
   • 1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
3. One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
4. (obsolete, often ironic) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
   • 1709 April 23 – 1710 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], The Tatler, number 17; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, , London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.;  , 1822, →OCLC:

     Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick […] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses

     The spelling has been modernized.

5. A cooking appliance comprising a pot (large or small) with a gridiron wielded beneath it, like a brazier, used for cooking methods such as broiling.

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conjurer

1. to beseech, to beg

   Je vous en conjure !

   I beseech you!

2. to ward off
3. to conspire, to plot, to conjure
4. (magic) to conjure

• “conjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• conjuror, conjeroure, conjurare, conjowrere

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman conjurour; equivalent to conjuren +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rɛːr(ə)/, /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rər(ə)/, /ˈkundʒəˌrɛːr(ə)/, /ˈkundʒərər(ə)/

conjurer

1. conjurer, magician
2. exorcist

• English: conjurer, conjuror

• “conjū̆rē̆re, -ǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

conjurer

1. to beseech, to beg
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Marie l'Egypcienne:

     Je te conjur de Dieu le roi

     I beg of you, by God the king.

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.