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

And they said, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth" to come out of this man.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

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

Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God, the Son of the Blessed?

From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by Olmsted, M. N.

A secret, Albert," she replied, with much solemnity,--"a profound secret, which I adjure you not to reveal.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)