abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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adjuration | (noun) a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something | - |
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adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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(adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
adjure | (verb) command solemnly | - |
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(verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
conjuration | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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(noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuring, conjury, invocation |
(noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: incantation |
conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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(verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
conjuring | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjury, invocation |
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conjuror | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjurer |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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injure | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: wound |
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(verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: hurt |
(verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound |
injured | (adjective) harmed | - |
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(adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: offended, pained |
injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
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injuriously | (adverb) in an injurious manner | - |
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injuriousness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: harmfulness |
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injury | (noun) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | - |
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(noun) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage | - |
(noun) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt | Synonyms: accidental injury |
(noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, wound |
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, trauma |
jural | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: juristic |
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juridic | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridical |
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(adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridical |
juridical | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridic |
jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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(noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
jurisprudential | (adjective) relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws | - |
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jurisprudentially | (adverb) in respect to jurisprudence or the science or philosophy of law | - |
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jurist | (noun) a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations | Synonyms: legal expert |
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(noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, justice |
juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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juror | (noun) someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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jury | (noun) a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law | - |
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(noun) a committee appointed to judge a competition | Synonyms: panel |
juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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perjurer | (noun) a person who deliberately gives false testimony | Synonyms: false witness |
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perjury | (noun) criminal offense of making false statements under oath | Synonyms: bearing false witness, lying under oath |
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uninjured | (adjective) not injured physically or mentally | - |
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