Conjurer vs Diviner - What's the difference?
conjurer | diviner |
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/]
* 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,
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.
One who foretells the future.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
As nouns the difference between conjurer and diviner
is that conjurer is one who conjures, a magician while diviner is one who foretells the future.conjurer
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Alternative forms
* conjuror * conjurour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
- (Addison)
