adjure

“Petrovitch, I adjure you!” said Akaki Akakievitch in an imploring tone, no longer hearing nor wishing to hear the tailor's words, “try to make this cloak last me a little longer.”

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

At least he would speak to the Emmetts and adjure them to be cautious, for the sake of all concerned.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

I speak to thee, the sophist, the talker-down Of scorn by scorn, the sinner against gods, The reverencer of men, the thief of fire,— I speak to thee and adjure thee!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I adjure thee by God, torment me not.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Archibald Thomas Robertson

Lord King, I adjure thee, open the gates, open thy heart.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

"For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train!"

From Time Magazine Archive

"Let's not look like we're flying," she adjures, flapping her elbows.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cardinals assist at Mass and receive holy communion from the hands of the Cardinal Dean, who solemnly adjures them to elect as pope him whom they believe to be the most worthy.

From Pope Pius the Tenth by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

When the mother leaves the house with her babe, she adjures the spirits to follow and to guard their ward.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

And he adjures his readers to put on the whole armor of God to be able to resist them.

From Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith

He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner.

From Time Magazine Archive

I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.

From Time Magazine Archive

One William McAndrew, writing in the November World's Work, adjured me to compose verses that, if memorized, would serve as a reminder to children to be careful when crossing the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

"More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world."

From Time Magazine Archive

The French must be communicated with, and adjured to claim their general.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

But before adjuring court, Orbus reminded Strauss-Kahn that the bail was not meant as a punishment, but to ensure that he appeared at the required hearings and did not flee justice.

From Time ● Jul. 1, 2011

For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The shriek was echoed by another, as the girl flung herself wildly down beside her mother, adjuring the latter by every endearing name.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

Let us be rational and adult, cry these authors, adjuring an insane world to return to its sanity.

From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl