conjurer

• conjuror
• conjurour (obsolete, rare)

From Anglo-Norman conjurour.

conjurer (plural conjurers)

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

     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.

   • 1594 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. — Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4.
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) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

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.

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

• “conjurer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

conjurer

1. to beseech, to beg
   • circa 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.

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.