At that stage men will acknowledge that the conjuration of spirits avails nothing unless accompanied by belief, and that the magic effect of prayer fails if there is no piety behind it[111].
They look upon the mention of his name as a conjuration which must result in his immediate presence[76].
In 1513 he was suspected of complicity in the conjuration of Pietropaolo Boscoli and Agostino Capponi, was imprisoned in the Bargello, and tortured to the extent of four turns of the rack.
This was the sanction of the Pazzi Conjuration against Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici.
Error From Mistaking Consecration For Conjuration A second generall abuse of Scripture, is the turning of Consecration into Conjuration, or Enchantment.
Any action or ceremony described in the conjuration must of course be performed even as the words are spoken.
The conjuration or exorcism which drives out the demon, of course restores the guardian spirit to its own beneficent nature, and the patient not only to bodily well-being, but also to peace of mind.
This extraordinary experiment was of course not resorted to until all known forms of conjuration had been gone through and had proved inefficient.
Meanwhile, Buffalmacco and I will to-night make the conjuration over the pills and bring them to thee to-morrow morning at home; and for the love of thee I will administer them myself and do and say that which is to be said and done.
I do defy thy, conjuration And apprehend thee for a felon here.
And here's your Conjuration Compound, that if you bathe a beefsteak in it the over night, it will come out a veal cutlet in the morning!
He repaired to the churchwardens, and promised to give the profits of a night's conjuration to the poor, if the parish would pay for hiring a room, &c.
I praise my God, through Jesus Christ, that I have learned not to cry conjuration and treason at everything that the godless multitude does condemn, or yet to fear the things that they fear.
The number nine, that is, 3 x 3, recurs so frequently in the conjuration formulas of the Mexican sorcerers that de la Serna exclaims: “It was the Devil himself who inculcated into them this superstition about the number nine.
In one of the conjuration formulas given by de la Serna (Manual de Ministros, p.
He desired the Englishman and myself, whom he seemed to distrust the most, constantly to hold two naked swords crossways an inch above his head as long as the conjuration should last.
The following fragment of a conjuration applies to a struggle of two persons combating two bulls, or creatures which are half-men, half-bulls.
After the conjuration is repeated, they forsake these bestial shapes and gradually become more and more human, appearing at last after frequent repetition of ceremony, as men of gentle countenance and behaviour.
I got a sight of a work published in Paris last year entitled La Conjuration d'Orleans.
It is very true that in such a state there would be no Conjuration des Philosophes; for in such a state this vermin of philosophes and scribblers would not have existed.
The history of this contest is curious in itself, and gives us a very instructive picture of the machinations of that conjuration des philosophes, or gang of scribblers who were leagued against the peace of the world.
Gradually he acquired a reputation as a healer by means of the methods of laying on of hands, conjuration and prayer.
The medical literature of the last century before Christ, and from that period until late in the Middle Ages, was an actual treasury of conjuration and other mummeries.
Should thisconjuration succeed, very well; then, perhaps, old Ostermann will gradually recover sufficient health to take yet a few of the burdens of state upon his own shoulders, and thus relieve the good Munnich of a part of his cares!
This conjuration of evil which I say; this warding off of evil which I perform; (this conjuration) is not made against me (?
The first step in the conjuration of the bee-hunter was, to produce an impression on the minds of his untutored observers, by resorting to a proper amount of mummery and mystical action.
I do not half like the state of things, and this conjuration about the bees may all fall through.
XVI The conjuration of the Pazzi was only one in a long series of similar conspiracies.
But the discovery of this conjuration put a stop to Giulio's scheme of reforming the State.
The tragic catastrophe of the Pazzi Conjuration cut short Poliziano's panegyric by the murder of his hero.
When a mere boy he had shown in the Conjuration de Fiesque no small literary talent, and his sermons deepened the impression.
Better still is the Conjuration de Fiesque of the Cardinal de Retz, his first work, and one written when he was but seventeen.
In France the conjuration of field-mice bears a more distinctly religious stamp.
In a Christian conjuration the Mother of God would have been substituted for the mother of the gods, whom the Greeks revered as the personification of all-creating and all-sustaining nature.
The use of the above-mentioned means of conjuration is unquestionably of very ancient date.
In order to make the conjuration effective some particular abode must be assigned to them; it is not sufficient to bid them begone, but they are to be told to go to a definite place.
These injunctions are followed by prayer and the usual formulas of conjuration and exorcism.
With such powers of conjuration and sorcery as these, it is not surprising if Dr.
His luck had turned, but with the Conjuration d'Ambroise it returned, and it lasted all winter.
The sixty-eight performances of Montarcy, ninety of Helene Peyron, and five hundred of La Conjuration d'Ambroise, prove the contrary.
La Conjuration d'Ambroise and Mademoiselle Aisse show some progress in this respect; but I am not blind; I censure his Louis XIV.
Are there schemers to go before this conjuration Committee; Wiltshire schemers, to tell the Committee how they can get rid of a part of these one hundred and ninety-eight persons to every parish?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conjuration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
