What's the difference between conjure and supernatural?

Conjure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
  • (v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
  • (2) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (3) Bastille were 2013's big British breakthrough band, but you'd be hard-pushed to mentally conjure the image of what they actually look like.
  • (4) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
  • (5) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (6) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
  • (7) Quietly, the children would huddle together and ask each other: “What will you have for breakfast?” And I remember saying: “Maybe an egg or a piece of bread and butter,” and tried to conjure up memories of home.
  • (8) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (9) In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself.
  • (10) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (11) Obama was politically isolated, unable to conjure broad international support or congressional backing.
  • (12) I fear that Corbyn is likely to discover, pretty quickly, that the rhetoric of change is easier to conjure than change itself.
  • (13) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
  • (14) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
  • (15) He then wins the next point after conjuring a perfect return from a near-perfect serve, after a drop-shot that Nadal returns with not quite enough interest, but clips the top of the net at 30-40 and the game's gone.
  • (16) "I don't want to be doing plays that are conjuring badness, because they make you feel full of badness.
  • (17) Kyrgios overcame a back injury and a two-set deficit to somehow conjure a 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 8-6 fourth-round triumph over Andreas Seppi at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
  • (18) You cannot conjure your actual personality, which you can remember only vaguely, in a theoretical sense.
  • (19) Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.
  • (20) The ghosts of some of those conjured characters seem to inhabit the space.

Supernatural


Definition:

  • (a.) Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (3) There was no relationship between psychoses and supernatural belief types.
  • (4) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
  • (5) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
  • (6) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
  • (7) He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel."
  • (8) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
  • (9) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
  • (10) The most relevant results were: the taxonomic determination of 237 vegetal species from which 399 curative products are obtained, in order to combat 57 illnesses, the most frequent of which are those related to the digestive system, the skin, the reproductive system and those of supernatural origin, which can only be treated by the use of plants in special ceremonies known as 'limpias', due to their peculiar condition.
  • (11) Analysis of the relationship of AIDS to traditional beliefs revealed that AIDS had been integrated into the traditional conceptualization of illness, health practices, and healing, and was attributed to both natural and supernatural causes.
  • (12) Multi-dimensional scaling analysis shows four clusters of mental distress: a) stress; b) western physiological; c) nonwestern physiological; and d) supernatural.
  • (13) The Queen is bonded to her country and people by supernatural compact.
  • (14) Herein lies the danger: it is in the interests of both western powers and Isis to grant this bunch of terrorists an almost supernatural horror.
  • (15) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
  • (16) Illness and the supernatural world are linked by the concepts of ghosts and Fever, the latter an index of ghost illness, deriving from a supernatural being.
  • (17) He designed a leaflet titled “Look After Yourself” pointing out clues that might distinguish between a person with supernatural powers and a person who “just appears to have them”.
  • (18) Illustrated by artists including Breno Tamura, Matt Rosenberg and Gus Storms, it's a supernatural-tinged tale of Mafia intrigue in which the soul of a murdered gangster, Tony Starks (Ghostface's regular alter ego), is bound up in 12 pieces of mystical vinyl.
  • (19) Breaking Bad and House of Cards are up against two subtitled series, BBC4's Danish political drama import Borgen and The Returned, the French supernatural thriller broadcast by Channel 4, for the international Bafta.
  • (20) BBC4's documentary about the supernatural on TV, Ghosts in the Machine, was watched by 304,000 between 9pm and 10pm.