adjure

From Middle English adjuren, from Latin adiūrō (“beg earnestly”), from ad- (“near, at; towards, to”)' + iūrō (“swear by oath”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ədˈdʒʊə/, /ədˈdʒɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ædˈd͡ʒʊɹ/, /ədˈd͡ʒʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

adjure (third-person singular simple present adjures, present participle adjuring, simple past and past participle adjured)

1. (transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
2. (transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.

   Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Then tell to me, and this great company, the tale whereof I have heard.' Thus adjured, I, in as few words as I could, related the history of the cannibal feast, and of the attempted torture of our poor servant.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:

     The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.

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• Homophones: adjurent, adjures

adjure

1. inflection of adjurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative