conjurer

English

Alternative forms

• conjuror
• conjurour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌnd͡ʒəɹə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

conjurer (plural conjurers, feminine conjuress)

1. One who conjures, a magician.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     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.

   • 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, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     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.

2. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
   • 1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
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.
   • 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, →OCLC:

     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

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.

Translations

one who conjures

• Bulgarian: магьосник (bg) (magjosnik), вълшебник (bg) (vǎlšebnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巫師／巫师 (zh) (wūshī), 魔術師／魔术师 (zh) (móshùshī)

• Czech: kouzelník (cs) m
• Danish: tryllekunstner c
• Dutch: tovenaar (nl) m, magiër (nl) m, bezweerder (nl) m
• Esperanto: iluziisto
• French: conjurateur (fr) m, invocateur (fr) m
• German: Zauberer (de) m
• Italian: illusionista m or f, prestigiatore (it) m
• Japanese: 魔術師 (ja) (まじゅつし, majutsushi), 魔法使い (ja) (まほうつかい, mahō tsukai)
• Latin: magus
• Middle English: conjurer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tryllekunstner m

  Nynorsk: tryllekunstnar m

• Portuguese: conjurador m
• Russian: волше́бник (ru) m (volšébnik), чароде́й (ru) m (čarodéj), маг (ru) m (mag)
• Spanish: conjurador m, conjuradora f
• Swedish: trollkonstnär c
• Telugu: మాంత్రికుడు (te) (māntrikuḍu)

one who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand

• Armenian: աճպարար (hy) (ačparar)
• Bulgarian: фокусник (bg) (fokusnik), илюзионист (iljuzionist)
• Czech: kejklíř (cs) m
• Dutch: goochelaar (nl) m
• Latin: praestīgiātor m, praestīgiātrix f
• Russian: фо́кусник (ru) m (fókusnik), фо́кусница (ru) f (fókusnica), иллюзиони́ст (ru) m (illjuzioníst), иллюзиони́стка (ru) f (illjuzionístka)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/

• Audio

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Verb

conjurer

1. to beseech, to beg

   Je vous en conjure !

   I beseech you!

2. to ward off
3. to conspire, to plot, to conjure
4. (magic) to conjure

Conjugation

Conjugation of conjurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conjurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conjurant /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conjuré /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conjure /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjures /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjure /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjurons /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	conjurez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/	conjurent /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect	conjurais /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɛ/	conjurais /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɛ/	conjurait /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɛ/	conjurions /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	conjuriez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁje/	conjuraient /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	conjurai /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/	conjuras /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁa/	conjura /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁa/	conjurâmes /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁam/	conjurâtes /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁat/	conjurèrent /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	conjurerai /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	conjureras /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	conjurera /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	conjurerons /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	conjurerez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	conjureront /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conjurerais /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjurerais /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjurerait /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjurerions /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	conjureriez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁje/	conjureraient /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	conjure /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjures /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjure /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	conjurions /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	conjuriez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁje/	conjurent /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect2	conjurasse /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁas/	conjurasses /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁas/	conjurât /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁa/	conjurassions /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	conjurassiez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁa.sje/	conjurassent /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conjure /kɔ̃.ʒyʁ/	—	conjurons /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	conjurez /kɔ̃.ʒy.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “conjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• conjuror, conjeroure, conjurare, conjowrere

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman conjurour; equivalent to conjuren +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rɛːr(ə)/, /ˌkunˈdʒiu̯rər(ə)/, /ˈkundʒəˌrɛːr(ə)/, /ˈkundʒərər(ə)/

Noun

conjurer

1. conjurer, magician
2. exorcist

Descendants

• English: conjurer, conjuror

References

• “conjū̆rē̆re, -ǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Verb

conjurer

1. to beseech, to beg
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Marie l'Egypcienne:

     Je te conjur de Dieu le roi

     I beg of you, by God the king.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of conjurer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		conjurer			avoir conjuré
gerund		en conjurant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		conjurant
past participle		conjuré
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	conjur	conjures	conjure	conjurons	conjurez	conjurent
	imperfect	conjuroie, conjureie, conjuroe, conjureve	conjuroies, conjureies, conjuroes, conjureves	conjuroit, conjureit, conjurot, conjureve	conjuriiens, conjuriens	conjuriiez, conjuriez	conjuroient, conjureient, conjuroent, conjurevent
	preterite	conjurai	conjuras	conjura	conjurames	conjurastes	conjurerent
	future	conjurerai	conjureras	conjurera	conjurerons	conjureroiz, conjurereiz, conjurerez	conjureront
	conditional	conjureroie, conjurereie	conjureroies, conjurereies	conjureroit, conjurereit	conjureriiens, conjureriens	conjureriiez, conjureriez	conjureroient, conjurereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	conjur	conjurs	conjurt	conjurons	conjurez	conjurent
	imperfect	conjurasse	conjurasses	conjurast	conjurissons, conjurissiens	conjurissoiz, conjurissez, conjurissiez	conjurassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	conjure	—	conjurons	conjurez	—