Conjure vs Create - What's the difference?
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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.
To put into existence.
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, title= To be creative, imaginative.
To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
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, title= To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).
(archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between conjure and create
is that conjure is while create is (lb).conjure
English
Verb
(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.
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* conjurer / conjuror * conjure up * conjure with * name to conjure withcreate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(creat)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
Synonyms
* (to put into existence) generate * inventAntonyms
* (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitateAdjective
(en adjective)- Hearts create of duty and zeal.