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

But whoever you are, whoever finds this paper, I beg of you, I implore you, I adjure you, do not tell a word of it to Dora.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant

“You wouldn’t be homesick at all, Dot, if your imagination had the speed of your hoofs,” he leaned down to adjure his horse, after a habit formed on many a lonelier trail.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

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

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

To "adjure" was to call upon a person to speak the truth in the Name of God.

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