0 to ask or order someone to do something:
The judge adjured him to answer truthfully.
He has adjured us not to use threats.
Both major parties—no major party has yet adjured it—have long accepted that two major commitments must be honoured.
I therefore adjure the authorities to take full advantage of any ambiguities in our favour.
We are adjured to increase production, and are told, no doubt quite truly, that every day counts.
In his closing words, he adjured us to remember the burden upon economy.
He said that this was a forecast, and adjured us to treat that forecast with "the necessary degree of irreverence".
That is something which he is adjured to disregard.
I admit that that is sentimental, and we are adjured not to let sentiment enter into the matter.
