adjure
verb (used with object)
to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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He is very ill, and he has adjured me to go and see him.
From Romola by George Eliot