'Conjurer' definitions:
Definition of 'conjurer'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist]
noun
A witch doctor who practices conjury [syn: conjurer, conjuror, conjure man]
Definition of 'Conjurer'
From: GCIDE
- Conjurer \Con*jur"er\, n. One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Conjurer'
From: GCIDE
- Conjurer \Con"jur*er\, n.
- 1. One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. [1913 Webster]
- Dealing with witches and with conjurers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'conjurer'
From: GCIDE
- Juggler \Jug"gler\, n. [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. Jongleur, Joculator.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. [Archaic]
- Note: This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A deceiver; a cheat. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'conjurer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artist,
- artiste,
- belly dancer,
- burlesque queen,
- chorine,
- chorus boy,
- chorus girl,
- Comus,
- coryphee,
- dancer,
- dancing girl,
- diabolist,
- diviner,
- dowser,
- ecdysiast,
- enchanter,
- entertainer,
- escamoteur,
- exotic dancer,
- Faust,
- female impersonator,
- geisha,
- geisha girl,
- guisard,
- guiser,
- hoofer,
- illusionist,
- impersonator,
- juggler,
- mage,
- magian,
- magician,
- magus,
- miracle-worker,
- mountebank,
- mummer,
- musician,
- nautch girl,
- necromancer,
- peeler,
- performer,
- prestidigitator,
- public entertainer,
- show girl,
- singer,
- sleight-of-hand performer,
- sorcerer,
- stripper,
- stripteaser,
- stripteuse,
- thaumaturge,
- thaumaturgist,
- theurgist,
- tricker,
- trickster,
- vaudevillian,
- vaudevillist,
- voodooist,
- warlock,
- water witch,
- wizard