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Conjure vs Pyromancer - What's the difference?

conjure | pyromancer |

As nouns the difference between conjure and pyromancer

is that conjure is (african american vernacular english) a practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration while pyromancer is one that performs divination using fire.

As a verb conjure

is to perform magic tricks.

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

    Related terms

    * conjuration ----

    pyromancer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One that performs divination using fire.
  • One that has a magical ability to conjure or control fire.