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Conjure vs Concoct - What's the difference?

conjure | concoct |

As verbs the difference between conjure and concoct

is that conjure is while concoct is to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

conjure

English

Verb

(conjur)
  • 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
  • I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To conspire or plot.
  • * Milton
  • Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (African American Vernacular English) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
  • Derived terms

    * conjurer / conjuror * conjure up * conjure with * name to conjure with

    concoct

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
  • to contrive something using skill or ingenuity
  • Derived terms

    * concocter * concoctor * concoctive