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

Marjorie made a never-to-be-forgotten picture, as surrounded by her body guard, she stood with her arms full of roses and listened to the quaint adjuration to Beautye.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

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

This solemn adjuration was answered by as solemn assurances to obey me in whatever I required of them.

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson

The rough adjuration restored the young man's nerve, and he looked up, his cheeks wet with tears.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.