adjure

Example Sentences

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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

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

Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God, the Son of the Blessed?

From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by Olmsted, M. N.

"Give 'em a prayer, parson," said he; "but be brief, I adjure you, for we must up anchor and be off."

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert

I adjure you, by all which a man of honour holds most sacred, to quit England the moment your health will allow you to sail.

From Leonora by Edgeworth, Maria