Therefore this appeal, O brothers, Earnestly do I adjure you To believe and trust your country.
Being, to whom the wisdom of the earth is folly, I adjure you to beware.
O Roderick, by all our hopes of bliss hereafter I adjure you--do you not love her then?
They ran: 'I adjure you by all that you hold sacred, to part from her at once if you do not wish to load yourself with a horrible crime: Constance von Zehren is your sister.
Come at once, I adjure you, by what is most sacred to you--by our ancient name!
I adjure you by heaven and all that is holy, kill this monster who would have plunged me into horrible crime.
They fell upon their knees, and dared to pray to God that He would give them strength to adjure the devil.
I cannot adjure my fatherland, I cannot relinquish my Provence.
To these, sir, permit me to appeal: by these I adjureyou to save me from that misery which threatens to overwhelm me, and which with my latest breath I will say I have not deserved.
Objection 1: It would seem unlawful toadjure an irrational creature.
I deem that a man who wishes to live according to the Gospel should not adjure another man.
Therefore in no way, apparently, is it lawful to adjure irrational creatures.
Further, to adjure is to induce a person to swear.
In the first way it is not lawful to adjure the demons because such a way seems to savor of benevolence or friendship, which it is unlawful to bear towards the demons.
In other respects as well, these addresses adjure you, thinkers, scholars, and authors who are still worthy of this name!
Even foreign lands adjure you so far as they still understand themselves in the very least, and still have an eye for their true advantage.
Your forefathers unite with these addresses and adjure you.
These addresses adjure you, thinkers, scholars, and authors who are still worthy of this name!
I adjure thee, thou devil," said the Friar Gonsol from afar off, "I adjure thee give me that booke else I will take thee by thy horns and hoofs and drub thy ribs together!
Be ye fair, I adjure you by God, and be not of the heedless.
Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God, and call to mind when thou didst stand in the presence of this Wronged One and We dictated to thee the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
In Heaven's name, brother, I adjure thee, give me a glass of water!
I adjure you," interrupted the High Chamberlain, "help me to find her.
Said Drupada: “In Indra's name, I adjure thee to reveal yourselves unto me now.
I adjure thee to depart at once from the place and seek a new dwelling-place elsewhere, and I pray thee to forget the wrong we do thee, for we are not our own masters.
I adjure you to command your brother to leave the place and torment my patient no longer.
I adjure the Committee on Manufactures to pause--to reflect on the dissatisfaction of all the South.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
