Definition of "conjurer"

conjurer

/ˈkʌnd͡ʒəɹə(ɹ)/

noun
plural conjurers, feminine conjuress
1. One who conjures, a magician.
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  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.
  July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
  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.
  c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]
2. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
3. One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
4. (obsolete, often ironic) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
  Quotations
  Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick […] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses
  1709 April 23 – 1710 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], The Tatler, number 17; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822
5. A cooking appliance comprising a pot (large or small) with a gridiron wielded beneath it, like a brazier, used for cooking methods such as broiling.

Definition of "conjurer"

conjurer

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