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Conjure vs. Reckon

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Conjureverb

(intransitive) To perform magic tricks.

‘He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.’;

Reckonverb

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Conjureverb

(transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.

Reckonverb

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

Conjureverb

To practice black magic.

Reckonverb

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

Conjureverb

To enchant or bewitch.

Reckonverb

(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

‘I reckon he won't try that again.’;

Conjureverb

(transitive) To evoke. en

Reckonverb

To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

Conjureverb

(transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.

Reckonverb

(intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

Conjureverb

To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.

Reckonverb

To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Conjureverb

To conspire or plot.

Reckonverb

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

‘The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain.’; ‘I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.’;

Conjurenoun

(African American Vernacular English) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

Reckonverb

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

‘He was reckoned among the transgressors.’; ‘For him I reckon not in high estate.’;

Conjureverb

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

‘I conjure you, let him know,Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.’;

Reckonverb

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

‘Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.’; ‘Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.’;

Conjureverb

To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.

‘Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sonsConjured against the Highest.’;

Reckonverb

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; - followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

Conjureverb

To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.

‘The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into.’;

Reckonverb

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

Conjureverb

To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.

‘She conjures; away with her.’;

Reckonverb

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

‘"Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall."’; ‘After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.’;

Conjureverb

evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;

‘raise the specter of unemployment’; ‘he conjured wild birds in the air’; ‘stir a disturbance’; ‘call down the spirits from the mountain’;

Reckonverb

expect, believe, or suppose;

‘I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel’; ‘I thought to find her in a bad state’; ‘he didn't think to find her in the kitchen’; ‘I guess she is angry at me for standing her up’;

Conjureverb

ask for or request earnestly;

‘The prophet bid all people to become good persons’;

Reckonverb

judge to be probable

Conjureverb

engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together;

‘They conspired to overthrow the government’;

Reckonverb

deem to be;

‘She views this quite differently from me’; ‘I consider her to be shallow’; ‘I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do’;

Reckonverb

make a mathematical calculation or computation

Reckonverb

have faith or confidence in;

‘you can count on me to help you any time’; ‘Look to your friends for support’; ‘You can bet on that!’; ‘Depend on your family in times of crisis’;

Reckonverb

take account of;

‘You have to reckon with our opponents’; ‘Count on the monsoon’;

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