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Conjured vs Conjurer - What's the difference?

conjured | conjurer |

As a verb conjured

is (conjure).

As a noun conjurer is

one who conjures, a magician.

conjured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (conjure)

    • 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 ----

    conjurer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conjuror * conjurour (qualifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who conjures, a magician.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
  • * 1594' ''His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a '''conjurer ; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.'' — Shakespeare, ''A Comedy of Errors , Act 4, Scene 4.
  • One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
  • * 1893' ''The man is by trade a '''conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
  • One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
  • (obsolete) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
    • (Addison)