"conjuration" meaning in English

See conjuration in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌkʌnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav [Southern-England] Forms: conjurations [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English conjuracioun, from Middle French conjuration, from Old French conjuracion, from Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|conjuracioun}} Middle English conjuracioun, {{der|en|frm|conjuration}} Middle French conjuration, {{der|en|fro|conjuracion}} Old French conjuracion, {{der|en|la|coniuratio||a swearing together, a conspiracy}} Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} conjuration (countable and uncountable, plural conjurations)
  1. Conjuring, legerdemain or magic. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (conjuring): магия (magija) (Bulgarian), волшебство́ (volšebstvó) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-conjuration-en-noun-jCLNAEIF Disambiguation of 'conjuring': 85 9 2 3
  2. A magic trick. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (magic trick): фо́кус (fókus) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-conjuration-en-noun-7H9UU2NY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 83 8 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 3 56 37 5 Disambiguation of 'magic trick': 3 95 1 1
  3. (obsolete) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-conjuration-en-noun-UlzxydrE
  4. (obsolete) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-conjuration-en-noun-W7H6XAy4

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for conjuration meaning in English (4.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "conjuracioun"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English conjuracioun",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "conjuration"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French conjuration",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "conjuracion"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French conjuracion",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "coniuratio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a swearing together, a conspiracy"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English conjuracioun, from Middle French conjuration, from Old French conjuracion, from Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conjurations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "conjuration (countable and uncountable, plural conjurations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott",
          "text": "How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Conjuring, legerdemain or magic."
      ],
      "id": "en-conjuration-en-noun-jCLNAEIF",
      "links": [
        [
          "Conjuring",
          "conjuring"
        ],
        [
          "legerdemain",
          "legerdemain"
        ],
        [
          "magic",
          "magic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 2 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "magija",
          "sense": "conjuring",
          "word": "магия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "volšebstvó",
          "sense": "conjuring",
          "word": "волшебство́"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 83 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 56 37 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A magic trick."
      ],
      "id": "en-conjuration-en-noun-7H9UU2NY",
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 95 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "fókus",
          "sense": "magic trick",
          "word": "фо́кус"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration."
      ],
      "id": "en-conjuration-en-noun-UlzxydrE",
      "links": [
        [
          "sacred",
          "sacred"
        ],
        [
          "oath",
          "oath"
        ],
        [
          "earnest",
          "earnest"
        ],
        [
          "entreaty",
          "entreaty"
        ],
        [
          "adjuration",
          "adjuration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy."
      ],
      "id": "en-conjuration-en-noun-W7H6XAy4",
      "links": [
        [
          "league",
          "league"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "conspiracy",
          "conspiracy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkʌnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conjuration"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "conjuracioun"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English conjuracioun",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "conjuration"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French conjuration",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "conjuracion"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French conjuracion",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "coniuratio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a swearing together, a conspiracy"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English conjuracioun, from Middle French conjuration, from Old French conjuracion, from Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conjurations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "conjuration (countable and uncountable, plural conjurations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott",
          "text": "How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Conjuring, legerdemain or magic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Conjuring",
          "conjuring"
        ],
        [
          "legerdemain",
          "legerdemain"
        ],
        [
          "magic",
          "magic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A magic trick."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sacred",
          "sacred"
        ],
        [
          "oath",
          "oath"
        ],
        [
          "earnest",
          "earnest"
        ],
        [
          "entreaty",
          "entreaty"
        ],
        [
          "adjuration",
          "adjuration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "league",
          "league"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "conspiracy",
          "conspiracy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkʌnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conjuration.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "magija",
      "sense": "conjuring",
      "word": "магия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volšebstvó",
      "sense": "conjuring",
      "word": "волшебство́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fókus",
      "sense": "magic trick",
      "word": "фо́кус"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conjuration"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.