reconjure

Updated: February 11, 2025

And though, for many years confined to his bed by infirmity, he could conjure away the property of others, and, for a reward, reconjure it again. The prevalence of this evil, induced the legislature, in 1725, to make the reception of stolen goods capital. The first sacrifice to this law was the noted Jonathan Wild.

William Hutton - An History of Birmingham (1783)