CONJURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjuring mean? 

• CONJURING (noun)
  The noun CONJURING has 1 sense:

1. calling up a spirit or devil

  Familiarity information: CONJURING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJURING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calling up a spirit or devil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

conjuration; conjuring; conjury; invocation

Hypernyms ("conjuring" is a kind of...):

magic; thaumaturgy (any art that invokes supernatural powers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjuring"):

evocation; summoning (calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations)

Derivation:

conjure (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)

 Context examples 

My conductor pressed me forward, conjuring me in a whisper “to give no offence, which would be highly resented;” and therefore I durst not so much as stop my nose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There I wandered about for many a year, and at last came back to the Punjab, where I lived mostly among the natives and picked up a living by the conjuring tricks that I had learned.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)