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Definition of conjuror in English: conjuror(also conjurer) nounˈkʌndʒərə A performer of conjuring tricks. Example sentencesExamples - And on this ship was a magician, a conjurer, whose function was to entertain the passengers.
- Similarly, they used it to combat the various tricks of magicians and conjurers and to create love or hatred between people.
- The sign features strongly in the charts of those who are light on their feet or slight of hand, being traditionally associated with athletes and gymnasts, magicians, conjurers, tricksters, conmen and and pickpockets!
- Mostly, though, movement was all; it was like a conjuror's trick: it blurred the reality.
- Afterwards they were entertained by a conjuror and a mind-reading act.
- A single act of the conjurer entertains his audience.
- Street conjurors in India (jadu-wallahs) perform this trick by preparing small pellets of ashes and concealing them at the base of their fingers, then working their fists to powder the pellets and produce the flow of fine ash.
- I judged the fellows to be strolling conjurors, and the boy with the bag to be carrying the tools of their trade.
- In the gradual manufacture of an illusion, the conjurer is only the instrument of the audience.
- Other cheaters use Morse code with coins and various other tricks known to conjurers.
- The conjuror defies us to discern how the trick is done.
- As well as being a comedian, he is considered one of the country's best magicians, certainly one of its sharpest card conjurors.
- The one answer I had a hundred times in that hour to offer the interviewees was quite simple: ‘If you had seen those same phenomena performed by a stage conjurer, how would you respond?’
- The main theme of the magic show, performed by the conjurer and his group at the Collectorate, was to foster communal harmony and national integration.
- Do you see yourself/the publisher as a magician, a conjurer?
- To perform this work, slave healers (midwives, conjurors, diviners, and herbalists) selected from among a lengthy menu of strategies.
- Street conjurers, tattooed with magic spells, roamed throughout the ancient world.
- And, ‘people of unimpeachable character’ have also reported that I and many other conjurors performed many miracles, over the years, and they were quite wrong.
- Used to be you could go to a nightclub and see a comedian, a brass band and a conjuror for the price of a couple drinks.
- Some conjurers are even said to levitate or to have performed the famous Indian rope trick.
Synonyms magician, illusionist British member of the Magic Circle formal prestidigitator
Origin Middle English: partly from conjure, partly from Old French conjureor, conjurere, from medieval Latin conjurator, from Latin conjurare 'conspire' (see conjure). Definition of conjuror in US English: conjuror(also conjurer) noun 1A person who conjures. Example sentencesExamples - In the US music market hers is a name to be reckoned with - the driving force behind the all-female Lilith Fair tour of America and conjurer of some of the most haunting tracks in recent years.
- We believe that in investigating phenomena of apparently paranormal nature, a qualified conjuror must be closely involved.
- The object conjured only lasts as long as the conjurer is touching it or until the warmth from the conjurer's hand leaves it.
- Once you've done the château, cathedral and the fascinating Maison de la Magie, a museum of magic dedicated to the legendary inventor and conjuror Robert Houdin, born in Blois in 1805, you have numerous chocolatiers to tempt you.
- The very soul of agriculture is at stake here; what we need is not some genetic conjurer with a magic disappearing wand, but a serious social debate about how our food is produced and what price we are prepared to pay for a tomato.
- ‘You have made a deal now, conjurer,’ the hiss said triumphantly.
- The Protestant Almanac, as you might suppose from its name, took a virulent anti-Catholic stance, publishing a list of adulterous or incestuous Popes, 24 of whom were conjurers or sorcerers.
- He begins to carry out research into the life of his ancestor, and finds dark intimations that he was a sorcerer or conjurer of some sort.
- But he is no miracle worker, no conjuror of talent out of thin air.
- Much has been said and written about the role of the conjuror in parapsychological research.
- He would rather visit an attorney, who could tell his fate much better than any conjurer, therefore he thought it was impossible they could think that he left his residence to avoid his discreditors.
- To cast a spell in this game, however, you need a sorcerer (or conjurer, magician, something like that).
- 1.1British A performer of conjuring tricks; a magician.
Example sentencesExamples - A single act of the conjurer entertains his audience.
- I judged the fellows to be strolling conjurors, and the boy with the bag to be carrying the tools of their trade.
- Do you see yourself/the publisher as a magician, a conjurer?
- In the gradual manufacture of an illusion, the conjurer is only the instrument of the audience.
- The main theme of the magic show, performed by the conjurer and his group at the Collectorate, was to foster communal harmony and national integration.
- As well as being a comedian, he is considered one of the country's best magicians, certainly one of its sharpest card conjurors.
- Some conjurers are even said to levitate or to have performed the famous Indian rope trick.
- And on this ship was a magician, a conjurer, whose function was to entertain the passengers.
- Mostly, though, movement was all; it was like a conjuror's trick: it blurred the reality.
- And, ‘people of unimpeachable character’ have also reported that I and many other conjurors performed many miracles, over the years, and they were quite wrong.
- Similarly, they used it to combat the various tricks of magicians and conjurers and to create love or hatred between people.
- Other cheaters use Morse code with coins and various other tricks known to conjurers.
- The conjuror defies us to discern how the trick is done.
- Street conjurers, tattooed with magic spells, roamed throughout the ancient world.
- Used to be you could go to a nightclub and see a comedian, a brass band and a conjuror for the price of a couple drinks.
- Afterwards they were entertained by a conjuror and a mind-reading act.
- To perform this work, slave healers (midwives, conjurors, diviners, and herbalists) selected from among a lengthy menu of strategies.
- The one answer I had a hundred times in that hour to offer the interviewees was quite simple: ‘If you had seen those same phenomena performed by a stage conjurer, how would you respond?’
- The sign features strongly in the charts of those who are light on their feet or slight of hand, being traditionally associated with athletes and gymnasts, magicians, conjurers, tricksters, conmen and and pickpockets!
- Street conjurors in India (jadu-wallahs) perform this trick by preparing small pellets of ashes and concealing them at the base of their fingers, then working their fists to powder the pellets and produce the flow of fine ash.
Origin Middle English: partly from conjure, partly from Old French conjureor, conjurere, from medieval Latin conjurator, from Latin conjurare ‘conspire’ (see conjure). |