adjure

Example Sentences

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This is because they not only bestow praise; they also adjure the congratulatee to continue the good work�or else.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I put you under gesa" means, I adjure you solemnly, so solemnly that you dare not disobey.

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

Monsieur, I implore you, I adjure you, to open this letter.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

I adjure you, by all which a man of honour holds most sacred, to quit England the moment your health will allow you to sail.

From Leonora by Edgeworth, Maria

South wind and drouth, I adjure you to make the trees of our fathers perish one and all where they stand, rather than that beneath their shade freedom of conscience shall be judged to death!

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de