adjure
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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
“You wouldn’t be homesick at all, Dot, if your imagination had the speed of your hoofs,” he leaned down to adjure his horse, after a habit formed on many a lonelier trail.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
In the Song of Songs, after the ecstatic praise of the beloved, the question is asked:— "What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, that thou dost so adjure us?"
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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
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
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