The difference between Conjure and Engender

When used as verbs, conjure means to perform magic tricks, whereas engender means to beget (of a man).


Conjure is also noun with the meaning: a practice of magic.

check bellow for the other definitions of Conjure and Engender

  1. Conjure as a verb (intransitive):

    To perform magic tricks.

  2. Conjure as a verb (transitive):

    To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil

  3. Conjure as a verb (intransitive):

    To practice black magic.

  4. Conjure as a verb (transitive):

    To evoke.

  5. Conjure as a verb (transitive):

    To imagine or picture in the mind.

  6. Conjure as a verb (transitive):

    To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.

  7. Conjure as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To conspire or plot.

  1. Conjure as a noun (African American Vernacular English):

    A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

  1. Engender as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

  2. Engender as a verb (transitive):

    To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

  3. Engender as a verb (transitive):

    To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

  4. Engender as a verb (intransitive):

    To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

  5. Engender as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To copulate, to have sex.

  1. Engender as a verb (critical theory):

    To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.