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Home Dictionary Name: conjurement Page 1 of about 25 results ( seconds)Conjurer
One who conjures one who calls entreats or charges in a solemn manner...
conjuring
invoking a spirit or devil See conjure v...
Conjurement
Serious injunction solemn demand or entreaty...
Black art
The art practiced by conjurers and witches necromancy conjuration magic...
Exorcise
To cast out as a devil evil spirits etc by conjuration or summoning by a holy name or by certain ceremonies to expel a demon or to conjure a demon to depart out of a person possessed by one...
Exorcism
The act of exorcising the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration also the form of conjuration used...
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, conjuration; sorcery.The practices of a witch, esp. in black magic; sorcery, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1595.By the Witchcraft Act, 1735 (so styled by the Short Titles act, 1896) (9 Geo. 2, c. 5), 'no prosecution shall be carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, enactments, or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence in Great Britain'; but it is also enacted that all persons pretending to use any kind of witchcraft, etc., shall upon conviction on indictment suffer one whole year's imprison-ment, and also be obliged to give sureties for good behaviour if the Court thinks fit [R.v. Stephenson, (1904) 68 J.P. 524] See VAGRANT. Prior to this Act witchcraft was a capital offence (see 1 & 2 Jac. 1, c. 12), and a woman and her daughter aged nine years were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to Stan as recently as 1716, this being the last execution in England for witchcraft. Pope Alexander the Sixth nominated a commission against...
Magician
One skilled in magic one who practices the black art an enchanter a necromancer a sorcerer or sorceress a conjurer...
Performer
Performer, includes an actor, singer, musician, dancer, acrobat, juggler, conjurer, snake charmer, a person delivering a lecture or any other person who makes a performance. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (qq)]...
Grimgribber
Grimgribber [fr. grimoire, Fr., a conjuring book in the old French romances, or perhaps the art of necromancy itself], the jargon used as a cover for legal sophistry, Div. Of Purl. 36, and notes....
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