Bewitch vs Conjure - What's the difference?
bewitch | conjure |
to cast a spell on someone or something
to astonish, amaze
To perform magic tricks.
To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil
To practice black magic.
To evoke.
To imagine or picture in the mind.
To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
* Addison
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(obsolete) To conspire or plot.
* Milton
(African American Vernacular English) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
As verbs the difference between bewitch and conjure
is that bewitch is to cast a spell on someone or something while conjure is to perform magic tricks.As a noun conjure is
a practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.bewitch
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{{der3, bewitchedness , bewitcher , bewitchery , bewitchful , bewitching , bewitchingness , bewitchment}}conjure
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(conjur)- I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
- Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
- Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.