Plea vs Conjure - What's the difference?
plea | conjure |
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
An excuse; an apology.
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
(legal) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
(legal) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
(legal) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
(legal) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
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 plea and conjure
is that plea is to fold, fold up, double while conjure is .plea
English
Noun
(en noun)- a plea for mercy
- 1667', ''Necessity, the tyrant’s '''plea .'' --, ''Paradise Lost IV.393
- (rfdate) No plea must serve; ‘t is cruelty to spare. -- .
- (rfdate) The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. --Laws of Massachusetts.
Usage notes
In 19th century U.K. law, that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant’s formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him/her.External links
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*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.