conjure
To perform magic tricks.
To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
(archaic) To practice black magic.
(archaic) To enchant or bewitch.
To evoke.
To imagine or picture in the mind.
There was a deep silence, while Helen's vivid fancy conjured up the scene. She knew the small neat room—she had been with Mrs. Palmer to see it; the cheerful garden filled with flowers, the hum of the distant play-ground, the rosy clusters of an acacia-tree, whose branches almost came in at the window;...
(archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
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.
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.
(African-American Vernacular) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
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