adjure

“Petrovitch, I adjure you!” said Akaki Akakievitch in an imploring tone, no longer hearing nor wishing to hear the tailor's words, “try to make this cloak last me a little longer.”

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Lord King, I adjure thee, open the gates, open thy heart.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

Well, on the border of the tomb I adjure you not to lose faith in yourselves, for you who prophesy your own fall are the ones who hasten it.

From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

I adjure you not to believe in that man.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai

Then Caiaphas said—"I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be Christ, the Son of God."

From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Austin Holyoak

"Let's not look like we're flying," she adjures, flapping her elbows.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, Soul of mine,     Look up and triumph rather—   Lo! in the depth of God's Divine,     The Son adjures the Father—           BE PITIFUL, O GOD.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life by Bliss Carman

Then she adjures him by all the sacred ties, and dwells pathetically on the circumstance which had struck even Menelaus.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

He said,—and flung Around her neck his arms; and by his life, The life of Merops, and his sisters' hopes Of nuptial bliss, adjures her to obtain Proofs of his birth celestial.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893.

From Time Magazine Archive

"More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world."

From Time Magazine Archive

I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

But before adjuring court, Orbus reminded Strauss-Kahn that the bail was not meant as a punishment, but to ensure that he appeared at the required hearings and did not flee justice.

From Time ● Jul. 1, 2011

For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

And Phil! and Phil! what had he meant, adjuring her to stick to him, to stand by him, not to contradict him?

From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There came the sound of Rainy-Moon’s voice adjuring the dogs outside the door of the dugout.

From The Hound From The North by Charles Livingston Bull