All 10 Uses
conjure
in
The Crucible
(Edited)
- ABIGAIL: But we never conjured spirits.
p. 10.7conjured = summoned
- PARRIS: Goody Ann, it is a formidable sin to conjure up the dead!
p. 16.1conjure = summon to be present
- PARRIS, to Abigail: Then you were conjuring spirits last night.
p. 16.5 *conjuring = summoning to be present
- ABIGAIL: He knows Tituba conjured Ruth's sisters to come out of the grave.
p. 18.5conjured = summoned
- And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters.
p. 20.1
- MARY WARREN: ..."It's a sin to conjure, and we--"
ABIGAIL, starting for Mary: I say shut it, Mary Warren!p. 20.4conjure = summon spirits with magic - You sent a child to conjure up the dead?
p. 39.1conjure = summon to be present
- TITUBA: You beg me to conjure!
p. 44.3conjure = summon the dead to be present
- May it be, perhaps, that someone conjures you even now to say this?
p. 76.1conjures = makes by magic
- MARY WARREN: Conjures me? Why, no, sir, I am entirely myself, I think.
p. 76.2conjures = controls by magic
Definitions:
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(1)
(conjure) summon into action or bring into existence -- often as if by magic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)