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Petition vs Conjure - What's the difference?

petition | conjure |

As nouns the difference between petition and conjure

is that petition is a formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures while conjure is a practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

As verbs the difference between petition and conjure

is that petition is to make a request, commonly in written form while conjure is to perform magic tricks.

petition

Noun

(en noun)
  • A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
  • A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
  • (legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
  • A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
  • * Bible, 1. Macc. vii. 37
  • A house of prayer and petition for thy people.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a request, commonly in written form.
  • 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