adjuring
- present participle of adjure.
Example Sentences
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But before adjuring court, Orbus reminded Strauss-Kahn that the bail was not meant as a punishment, but to ensure that he appeared at the required hearings and did not flee justice.
From Time ● Jul. 1, 2011
For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole.
From Time Magazine Archive
The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
John tells me to stop adjuring the jockey, that he will never hear me.
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
“Sáhela Selássie ye moot?” inquired the sporting monarch on one of these occasions, adjuring the informant by his own illustrious life; “are they well surrounded?”
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
