abracadabra, conjurement, evocation, exorcism, hanky-panky, hokey-pokey, invocation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic words, mumbo jumbo, prestidigitation, sleight of hand
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Retz, however, despite the little inclination which he felt towards clerical life, entered into the disputes of the Sorbonne with vigour, and when he was scarcely eighteen wrote the remarkable Conjuration de Fiesque, a little historical essay, of which he drew the material from the Italian of Augustino Mascardi, but which is all his own in the negligent vigour of the style and the audacious insinuation, if nothing more, of revolutionary principles. [Please select]
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Ten men brought before the queen and council on charge of "trespass, contempt, conjuration and sorceries." [Please select]
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Prescall, Sanford, and "one Emerson, a preiste," suspected of conjuration against the queen. [Please select]
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Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected of conjuration, to appear before the privy council. [Please select]
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Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration, brought before the privy council. [Please select]
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Several persons to be examined about their dealings in conjuration with an Italian friar. [Please select]
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The doctor, not minding this conjuration, made the following speech, as near as I can remember: "I'll tell you what, Mr."' [Please select]
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As I was not in a condition to satisfy him in this particular, he repeated his conjuration to no purpose, and they continued a good while in the agonies of fear. [Please select]
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