adjure

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ədˈdʒʊə/(UK)
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/ədˈdʒʊə/(UK) · /ədˈdʒɔː/(UK) · /ædˈd͡ʒʊɹ/(US) · /ədˈd͡ʒʊɹ/(US)

Definition of adjure

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (often, transitive)To issue a formal command.
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verb

  1. (often, transitive)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.”
    “`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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