Dic: adjure

1. to command someone to do something

2. to appeal earnestly to someone [Latin adjurare]

adjuration n

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• "Comrade," said he, "I adjure you, as a Christian and a soldier, to tell me where we are going.
  .................. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
  
  
• "I have been calumniated," continued Fouquet, warmly, "and I feel called upon to adjure the justice of the king to make inquiries.
  .................. The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
  
  
• But I only the more earnestly adjure all those whose eyes may rest on these pages, to pause and reflect upon the difference between this town and those great haunts of desperate misery: to call to mind, if they can in the midst of party strife and squabble, the efforts that must be made to purge them of their suffering and danger: and last, and foremost, to remember how the precious Time is rushing by.
  .................. American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

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