conjurer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who conjures, a magician.
    — July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ 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.
  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. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. ironic,obsolete,often
    — Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick[…] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses
  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.

词形变化

conjurers plural conjuror alternative conjurour alternative

词源

From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure + -er.
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