Occur vs Conjure - What's the difference?
occur | conjure |
To happen or take place.
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To present or offer (itself).
(label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
* 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,
(label) To be present or found.
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 occur and conjure
is that occur is to happen or take place while conjure is .occur
English
Verb
(occurr)- Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)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.