ADJURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjure mean? 

• ADJURE (verb)
  The verb ADJURE has 2 senses:

1. ask for or request earnestly

2. command solemnly

  Familiarity information: ADJURE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adjure    ... he / she / it adjures   
Past simple: adjured   
Past participle: adjured   
-ing form: adjuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for or request earnestly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adjure; beseech; bid; conjure; entreat; press

Context example:

The prophet bid all people to become good persons

Hypernyms (to "adjure" is one way to...):

plead (appeal or request earnestly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

adjuration (a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something)

adjuratory (earnestly or solemnly entreating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Command solemnly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "adjure" is one way to...):

burden; charge; saddle (impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

adjuration (a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something)

adjuratory (containing a solemn charge or command)

 Context examples 

They followed, and I stepped at once out of the box-door into my bedroom, where only Steerforth was with me, helping me to undress, and where I was by turns telling him that Agnes was my sister, and adjuring him to bring the corkscrew, that I might open another bottle of wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)