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
Exorcise, eks′or-sīz, or eks-or′-, v.t. to adjure by some holy name: to call forth or drive away, as a spirit: to deliver from the influence of an evil spirit.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He went on, with chattering teeth, to adjure me to go no further; but crossing myself, I bade him be silent, and stepped forwards.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
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
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