Conjurer

Alternative forms

• conjuror
• conjurour obsolete, rare

Origin

From Anglo-Norman conjurour.

Full definition of conjurer

Noun

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.
• 1594 His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand. — Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4.
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. (obsolete) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.