The word "conjuration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of summoning, invoking, or calling up a spirit, demon, or another supernatural entity. For example, "The sorcerer performed a powerful conjuration to summon a ghost from the other side."
There is also a probable conjuration and an explanation of the death of the person in the tomb.
Ford even wrote to the poet Marianne Moore, asking her to think up a name that would "convey, through association or other conjuration, some visceral feeling of elegance, fleetness, advanced features and design".
O'Brien had Oedipal feelings about Joyce, and this conjuration momentarily steals the show.
The staging of the scene was, typically, a last-minute improvisation, a conjuration out of chaos.
5,000 British witches and wizards, calling themselves "mediums" and organized in the Spiritualists National Union, are campaigning for the abolition of the Witchcraft Act of 1732 which provides that "if any person or persons shall pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, Inchantment, or conjuration, every person so offending shall suffer imprisonment".
Challerhocker (say it "holler-hocker"), a gorgeous conjuration of macadamia nuts, caramelized onion and butterscotch, was invented a decade ago by a lone producer in a tiny Swiss town.
It is a bitter tale whose power resides in the prodigiousness of the fall: the giant's grandeur of spirit, his epic conjurations of language a star extinguished in mud.
But their artistry comes at a high price — the show, with its makeup and recitations, its illusions and conjurations, may be fake, but, as Vogler's wife (Ingrid Thulin) admits to Dr. Vergérus, Vogler's own torments are real.
And at day's end, Mr. Zorn coaxed becalmed meditations and eerie horror-movie conjurations (accompanied by his own howls of maniacal laughter) from two historic instruments in the museum's collection: a 19th-century Appleton pipe organ, and a 17th-century German positive organ tucked away just out of sight.
That sense of disguised challenge was pervasive in this deeply satisfying work, which seemed less concerned with the virtuoso technique required to play it than with the ideas and conjurations it presented.
With its pseudo-Hebraic mystical symbols, spirit conjurations and psalms, this book of the secret wisdom of Moses was a founding text of Rastafarianism and various religious movements in west Africa, as well as a cause célèbre in post-war Germany.
