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

But this time, too, her adjuration failed to awaken an echo.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

Muttering an angry adjuration at the ghostly oarsman, he threw himself upon the ground.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

Here there was a fierce adjuration from the Malays in the other boat, which Hilton obeyed to the extent of speaking in a lower tone.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

The solemn adjuration is made in the name of the Church by her ministers and in the ritual form prescribed by her, as in the exorcisms of Baptism.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome