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Conjure vs Reconjure - What's the difference?

conjure | reconjure |

As verbs the difference between conjure and reconjure

is that conjure is to perform magic tricks while reconjure is to conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic.

As a noun conjure

is a practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

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 ----

    reconjure

    English

    Verb

    (reconjur)
  • To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic
    • With careful attention to detail, he reconjured the atmosphere of a 19th-century ball.