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

To the friendly adjuration of John of Chlum he replied with tears that he would willingly revoke anything in which he could be proved to have erred.

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

The adjuration spoke volumes, and for a few moments the old man stood there as if in a catalyptic state.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville

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

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