verb · transitive · rare

adjure

ad·jure

adjure · adjures · adjured · adjuring

To formally command or request to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to…To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge.

UK/əˈd͡ʒʊə/US/əˈd͡ʒʊ(ə)ɹ/

Meaning

5 senses

(transitive)To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge.
(transitive)To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort.
Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
ask for or request earnestly
(transitive)To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore.
(transitive)To summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).
(intransitive)To summon the Devil or an evil spirit; also, to exorcize the Devil or an evil spirit.

Translations

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Origin

From Late Middle English adjuren (“to bind (oneself or someone) by oath to do something; t

From Late Middle English adjuren (“to bind (oneself or someone) by oath to do something; to entreat or implore (someone); to question (someone) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman adjurer, Middle French adjurer, and Old French ajurer (“to bind (oneself or someone) under oath; to entreat or implore (someone)”) (modern French adjurer), and from their etymon Latin adiūrāre, the present active infinitive of adiūrō (“to take an oath”) (whence Late Latin adiūrō (“to entreat or implore (someone); to conjure; to exorcize”)), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’, or having an intensifying effect) + iūrō (“to confirm formally; to take an oath”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) straight; upright; (noun) justice, right; law”)).

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