to adjure
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9.9
- verb
- /əˈdʒʊr/
- Formal
:
adjudicar
- I adjure you in the name of the spotless lamb.
Examples
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"My Percy, I know your first instinct will be to grieve, but I adjure you rather to consider our son and the love you must show him.
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I adjure you, friend.
Blog text (17) -
And now, I adjure you in his name!
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Be somebody, I adjure you.
Fiction book (1992) -
I adjure you, ancient serpent by the judge of the living and of the dead.
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Jesus of Nazareth, I adjure you by the living God, by the Almighty, tell us if you be the Christ, the Son of God!
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I adjure you, ancient serpent, by the judge of the living and the dead, by your creator, by Him who has the power to consign you to Hell.
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He assembled the people and said: "I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action, and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up."
Blog text (25) -
But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."
Blog text (12) -
I adjure you, my friends, to consider the consequences of your actions.
Synonyms
285
3.9
Ask someone firmly and repeatedly to do something
47
8.2
To ask someone earnestly for something
28
3.5
To tell someone politely or formally to do something
12
8.1
Ask someone in a serious, emotional way to do something
Antonyms
How Forceful
258
4.8
307
2.7
- Formal
1
9.9
591
3.2
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
adjure = ad + jure
Although etymologically ad- + jure ('to swear'), the parts are not productive standalone English morphemes for most learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from familiar words.
Etymology
Adjure comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and jurare 'to swear'. A helpful image is asking someone as if under an 'oath', like in front of a jury, so to adjure someone is to urge or command them very seriously and formally.