0 to ask or order someone to do something: --
The judge adjured him to answer truthfully.
We are always being adjured that we must bring our plant and machinery up to date.
He kept adjuring us not to be mealymouthed and the like, and to speak out with the utmost frankness.
In these debates one is always adjured not to be carried away by sentiment.
To ask us to adjure the local authorities to do that is to ask us to do something which in many cases would be absurd.
That is one of the old superstitions all who have followed political science have long since adjured.
I have been adjured not to be controversial, no matter how seriously provoked, in this debate, nor to speak on any controversial issue.
We have been adjured in the last few days to cut unnecessary costs.
I admit that that is sentimental, and we are adjured not to let sentiment enter into the matter.
