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Definition
summon into action or bring into existence — often as if by magic
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (16% in)
- He had no clew to the state of Will Ladislaw's mind, smarting as it was from the clear hints of Raffles, and with its natural quickness in construction stimulated by the expectation of discoveries which he would have been glad to conjure back into darkness.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (87% in)
- That Raffles should be afflicted with illness, that he should have been led to Stone Court rather than elsewhere—Bulstrode's heart fluttered at the vision of probabilities which these events conjured up.Book 7 — Two Temptations (63% in)
There are no more uses of "conjure" in Middlemarch.
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