conjury

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He is the metaphor matador, the tale twister, the verbal bully who mesmerizes those onstage and in the audience with his endless conjury of felicitous syllables.

From Time Magazine Archive

That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov�a novelist who depends on conjury, not creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there had been isolated plots against the sovereign, in which conjury had played a conspicuous part.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace

She felt the burning power, the conjury of its flame, and it made her future with Ward, at the moment, seem dull and drab.

From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin

All of which savors of conjury, but is really only matter-of-fact biological experiment—experiment, however, of which the implications by no means confine themselves to matters of fact biological.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith