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

The priest put out his arm with a word of adjuration.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John

Just before he reached our company, a student major, in a frenzy of apprehension, came up and gave us one final adjuration not to wiggle.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

Yet at times, rising upon the flood of feeling, he shot out a solemn adjuration or asserted an opinion with a fiery emphasis that electrified the audience into applause.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William

"God bless you!"—what on earth could Harry mean by that solemn adjuration under such strange and mysterious circumstances?

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant