Verb

(contriv)

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

* Hawthorne

Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.

* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 154

I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.

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To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.

To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

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.