All 3 Uses of
conjure
in
David Copperfield
- He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable.†
Chpt 10-12
- But for the quiet picture I had conjured up, of my mother in her youth and beauty, weeping by the fire, and my aunt relenting to her, I hardly think I should have had the courage to go on until next day.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(conjure) summon into action or bring into existence -- often as if by magic