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Remind vs Conjure - What's the difference?

remind | conjure |

As verbs the difference between remind and conjure

is that remind is to cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person) while conjure is .

remind

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 3:
  • I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
  • * 1915 , , Victory: An Island Tale , "Author's Note":
  • His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.

    Synonyms

    * put someone in mind of

    Derived terms

    * reminder

    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