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conjure someone or something up

1. Lit. to make someone or something appear, seemingly by the use of magic. The magician conjured seven white doves up. Then an old wizard conjured up a horse.

2. Fig. to manage to locate someone or something. I think I can conjure a pencil up for you. Do you think you can conjure up a large coffee urn in the next half hour?

3. Fig. to manage to think up or imagine someone or something in one's mind. Can you conjure a vision of grandma up? All I could do was to conjure up happy memeories.

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As I mention 'Riverito, Maximina, Un Idilio de un Inferno, La Hermana de San Sulpizio, El Cuarto Poder, Espuma,' the mere names conjure up the scenes and events that have moved me to tears and laughter, and filled me with a vivid sense of the life portrayed in them. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context And Miss Monflathers, the audacious creature who presumed, even in the dimmest and remotest distance of her imagination, to conjure up the degrading picture, 'I am a'most inclined,' said Mrs Jarley, bursting with the fulness of her anger and the weakness of her means of revenge, 'to turn atheist when I think of it The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context After all, we have to conjure up ideal poets for ourselves out of those who stand in or behind the range of volumes on our book-shelves; and our ideal Browning would have for his entire structural type those two volumes of Men and Women with Pippa Passes. The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context	confer on confess to confession is good for the soul confide in confidence confine confine or an animal to confine to confine within confirm in confiscate from conflict conflict with conform conform to conform with confront with confuse confuse about confuse or an animal with confuse with confusion congratulate on conjecture on conjure conjure up conk conk off conk out connect connect the dots connect to connect with conniption connive at Consarn it! conscience Conscience does make cowards of us all conscript into consecrate to God consent consent to consequence consider consider for consideration consign to consist of console console on console with	Conjunctivitis, viral conjunctivobuccostomy Conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy conjunctivoma conjunctivoplasty conjunctivoralostomy conjunctivorhinostomy conjunctly conjunctly conjuncts conjuncts conjuncture conjuncture conjunctures conjunctures conjunto Conjunto Instrumental Nuestro Tiempo conjuntos conjuration conjuration conjuration conjurations conjurations Conjurator conjure conjure conjure conjure conjure away conjure man conjure up conjured conjured conjured Conjurement conjurer conjurer conjurer conjurers conjurers conjures conjures conjures conjuring conjuring conjuring conjuring conjuring trick conjuror conjuror conjuror conjurors conjurors conjury conjury CONJUVE conk conk conk off conk out conk out

As I mention 'Riverito, Maximina, Un Idilio de un Inferno, La Hermana de San Sulpizio, El Cuarto Poder, Espuma,' the mere names conjure up the scenes and events that have moved me to tears and laughter, and filled me with a vivid sense of the life portrayed in them.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

And Miss Monflathers, the audacious creature who presumed, even in the dimmest and remotest distance of her imagination, to conjure up the degrading picture, 'I am a'most inclined,' said Mrs Jarley, bursting with the fulness of her anger and the weakness of her means of revenge, 'to turn atheist when I think of it

The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context

After all, we have to conjure up ideal poets for ourselves out of those who stand in or behind the range of volumes on our book-shelves; and our ideal Browning would have for his entire structural type those two volumes of Men and Women with Pippa Passes.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context

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