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One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

The practice of magic; enchantment. Motley.

f-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.

One who makes or practices contortions.

The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. The Jesui…

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.

The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing. A pretty, coquettish housemaid. W. Irving.

Debauched in character or practice; impure. Milton.

or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

e works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distin…

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] You have crafted fair. Shak.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]

A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty. The great articles and credenda of Christianity. South.

ns of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.