adjure
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
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- 6
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Definition of adjure
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (often, transitive)To issue a formal command.
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verb
- (often, transitive)To issue a formal command.
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(transitive)To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
“Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.”
“`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.”
“The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.”
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Etymology
From Middle English adjuren, from Latin adiūrō (“beg earnestly”), from ad- (“near, at; towards, to”)' + iūrō (“swear by oath”).
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