to conjure up

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to conjure up - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Conjure \Con"jure\, v. t.
     To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send
     away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by
     the aid of supernatural powers.
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           The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the
           devil into.                              --Shak.
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     To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts;
        hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up
        alarms.
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