[A modern formation from CONJURE v. + -Y, imitating augury, injury, and similar forms, which go back to L. -ium, -ia.] The art of a conjurer; magic; legerdemain.
1855. Motley, Dutch Rep., I. 30. Priesthood works out its task, age after age … exercising the same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind.
1881. New York Independent, No. 1716. 6. The pretended belief in conjury which most Negroes affect.
