Conjured

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Brought into existence or summoned, usually through magical means ; caused to appear or come into being suddenly or as if by magic
2. Summoned or evoked, often in a supernatural way ; produced or created swiftly, seemingly by supernatural power
3. Called up or brought about, typically by magical or mysterious force ; manifested unexpectedly or instantaneously as if from nowhere

Etymology: "Conjured" is the past tense and past participle of "conjure," and the verb's history starts with a group of people swearing an oath together. Its Latin ancestor, "coniūrō," meant "to swear together," built from "con-" (together) and "iūro" (to swear or take an oath). That sense of collective vow led to "conspire," and the Latin word passed into Old French as "conjurer" before arriving in Middle English as "conjuren." The leap from swearing oaths to summoning spirits is the surprising part. Somewhere along the way, the idea of binding people by a solemn oath shifted toward binding or calling forth powers through solemn formulas, the kind of sworn incantation a magician or necromancer might recite. A conjurer was originally someone who invoked supernatural forces by oath and ritual, and the modern sense of producing something swiftly by apparent magic grew out of that older meaning of commanding unseen powers.

Synonyms: summoned, evoked, called, produced, created

Antonyms: dispelled, dissipated, rejected, ignored, abandoned