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
South wind and drouth, I adjure you to make the trees of our fathers perish one and all where they stand, rather than that beneath their shade freedom of conscience shall be judged to death!
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
Then the Syrian would solemnly adjure him, or threaten him if he were obstinate, and so drive him out.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
Write to him, my dearest, and adjure him not to hope.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
His duty was to admonish and exhort, to adjure his flock to quit the error of their ways.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William
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