Conjure vs Embrace - What's the difference?
conjure | embrace |
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 clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xx. 1
(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
* Shakespeare
To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
* Dryden
* Denham
To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
To fasten on, as armour.
(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.
As verbs the difference between conjure and embrace
is that conjure is while embrace is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.As a noun embrace is
hug (noun); putting arms around someone.conjure
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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 withembrace
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Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)Verb
(embrac)- I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
- Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
- You embrace the occasion.
- What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
- I embrace this fortune patiently.
- Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
- Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
- Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
- (Spenser)
- (Blackstone)