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

His duty was to admonish and exhort, to adjure his flock to quit the error of their ways.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

To have to discuss, argue, explain, threaten, adjure, only in order to get back to the point from which nobody ought ever to have started, was the silliest of all silly necessities.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von

Then Caiaphas said—"I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be Christ, the Son of God."

From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Holyoak, Austin

The high priest… said… I adjure thee by the living God, that tell us whether thou be the Christ.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah