conjugal, adj. connubial, matrimonial, nuptial, hymeneal, epithalamic; marital, married, wedded; spousal, husbandly, wifely, bridal,
conjunction, n. 1. combination, unification, ac-couplement, joinder; merger, incorporation, consolidation, amalgamation, conglomeration, engrossment; junction, juxtaposition, collocation; joining, linking, splicing, uniting, binding, bonding, yoking; connecting, conjoining, coupling; meeting, touching, bordering, edging, skirting, abutting.
2. union, association, affiliation, conjugation, conjuncture; cooperation, collaboration, coaction, united action; concurrence, concert, synergy; agreement, accordance, concordance; alliance, federation, confederation, league; conspiracy, collusion, Inf. cahoots.
3. coincidence, co-occurrence; simultaneity, simultaneousness; contemporaneousness, contemporaneity; coexistence, concommitance.
conjuncture, n. 1. circumstances, state of affairs, set of conditions; context, environment, total situation, status quo, Inf. the picture or whole picture, Inf. the story.
2. coincidence, concurrence, co-occurrence; simultaneity, simultaneousness; contemporaneity, contemporaneousness; coexistence, concomittance.
3. crisis, crux, crunch; crossroads, turning point, critical moment or point, crucial moment, juncture, critical juncture, moment of truth, zero hour, Mil. H-hour; emergency, exigency; predicament, plight, dilemma, quandary, strait, extremity; pinch, rub, scrape, squeeze, push, Inf. hold, Inf. clutch.
4. combination, unification, union, connection, junction, conjugation, accouplement, joinder; merger, incorporation, consolidation, amalgamation, conglomeration, engrossment; joining, linking, splicing, uniting, binding, bonding, yoking; connecting, conjoining, coupling; meeting, touching, bordering, edging, abutting, skirting.
conjuration, n. 1. invocation, evocation, calling up by incantation; calling upon, summoning, summons; petition, petitioning, suit, appeal; supplication, beseechment, beseeching, obtestation, obsecration; request, prayer, praying, orison, plea, pleading, intercession.
2. incantation, chant, magic formula, magic word, invocation; mumbo jumbo, hocus-pocus, abracadabra, open sesame.
3. spell, jinx, hex, negative influence; magic, charm, rune, Scot. cantrip, enchantment, bewitchment, bedevilment; trance, hypnosis, hypnotism, mesmerism, fascination, rapture; captivation, obsession, possession; entrancement, allurement, seduction.
4. magic, sorcery, wizardry, thaumaturgy, theurgy; black magic, black art, occult art, voodoo, hoodoo; witchcraft, witchery, necromancy, shamanism; divination, sortilege.
5. legerdemain, sleight of hand, artful trickery, skillful deception.
conjure, v. 1. (with the object as devil or spirit) invoke, call upon, rouse, summon, beckon, command, order; call up, raise up, bring into existence, incorpore-alize.
2. cast a spell, enchant, bewitch, ensorcell, bedevil, entrance, spellbind; voodoo, hex, jinx, hoodoo.
3. Usu.
conjure up recall, bring to mind, bethink, recollect, remember; call to mind, evoke, review, retrace.
conjurer, n. magician, conjurator, incantator, evocator, enchanter; sorcerer, wizard, warlock, theurgist; miracle-worker, thaumaturgist, wonder-worker, fairy godmother; witch, necromancer, shaman; medium, fortuneteller, diviner, dowser, soothsayer, astrologer, clairvoyant; voodoo, witch doctor, medicine man; Magus, Merlin, Wizard of Oz, Hecate, Circe.