adjure
verb (used with object)
to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
adjured
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past participleof adjure.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof adjure.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
adjureverb (used with object)to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
Example Sentences
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I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good-humoredly, he adjured photographers to picture his "bad" eye as well as his good.
From Time Magazine Archive
He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus adjured, she gave way; but this time the shyness to which she had pleaded guilty, made itself manifest by an occasional slight tremor in the sweet, clear voice.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
