adjuration

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New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City�Yours and Mine�Keep It Clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

This strikes us now-a-days as anything but a very solemn or a very momentous form of adjuration.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

"Chuck some of his own coals at 'im!" was the frantic adjuration of a foolish virgin who had already expended all her ammunition against the shutters of the gate-lodge.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

There was no pretence of moderation, and, save in the technical adjuration for mercy, no attempt to evade the responsibility.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

Feminine Oaths.—Among the number of feminine expletives may be reckoned Ophelia’s adjuration “by Gis.”

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian