How To Use Adjure In A Sentence
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And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Thus adjured, clinging to the shreds of her modesty because she was simply unable to help herself, Beth retired behind the one high-backed chair and, using it as a makeshift screen, exchanged the quilt for the fresh chemise and petticoat that had been laid out for her, then slipped into her stays.
Shameless
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It is in this light that Romans 13 adjures people to obey the powers that be.
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She adjured him to tell the truth.
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The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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He adjures her to ‘do something else, outside yourself.’
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In words that echo Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah, the people are adjured to ‘do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly’ with their God.
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A government spokesman also adjured German companies to use their "moral sense" when doing business with Iran and that "the government is expecting some sensitivity from businesses.
Abraham H. Foxman: Europe's Contradictions on Iran Sanctions
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In his 2005 Stanford Commencement address, Jobs, then on the mend, adjured the graduates, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
John Maeda: Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam
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His last words were to his wife of fifty-two years, whom he is said to have kissed and adjured, “Live mindful of our marriage, Livia, and farewell.”
Caesars’ Wives
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So, I adjure you to continue to publish - dare I say expand - your coverage of discontinued models, whether or not they are considered ‘classic.’
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I adjure you to spare him.
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Thus adjured, they all started bailing with a will.
Shameless
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
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I adjure you to tell the truth before this court.
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Fortuna bid her goodnight, adjured her to behave and clasped her hand and kissed it before she made her way back to the inn.
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Sometimes the exorcist used the rite of exsufflation, and sometimes, as St. Cyprian states, adjured the evil spirit to depart per Deum verum (by the true God).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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I adjure you to tell the truth before this court.
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`I will not have hysterics ," she adjured herself, heading for the phone.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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I adjure you to speak the truth.
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So, while, in his summing up, the Judge adjured the jury to ‘use your common sense, neither he nor the jury showed much of that vital commodity.’
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I adjure you to tell the truth before this court.
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I adjure you to drop whatever vulgar habits you may have learned before you meet your husband.
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[...] The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
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You, on the other hand, adjure that my posts are "frothed with more like despair, and dissatisfaction", and are "almost void or lacking the bolstering of support her new found home town direly needs".
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I adjure you to speak the truth.
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When I die, Billy, you must bury me in a redwood grove," Saxon adjured.
CHAPTER XVI
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Before the start of my first day here, a representative from the Ontario Teachers' Federation flagged down a group of us and adjured us to refuse to mark the test.
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Although what the abbot says must be done, without complaint (ch. 5), the abbot is adjured at some length to recall his answerability before God, his call to be the image of Christ in the monastery and to 'leaven' the minds of those under his care, and his duty to ignore apparent claims of status among the monks.
'Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality
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She adjured him to tell the truth.
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Rather, Jesus adjures them to seek a heavenly treasure that, although it cannot be grasped or understood by the usual human standards of success, is nonetheless indestructible.
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When the High Priest said, ‘I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ the Son of the living God ‘, Jesus replied, ‘You have said so.’
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The bunkhouse was scrubbed; -- "swabbed" in the vernacular of the cowboys; the scant bedding was "cured" in the white sunlight; and the cook was adjured to extend himself in the preparation of "chuck
The Two-Gun Man
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Some thirty-five years ago, when I was a newcomer to the United States, an American friend adjured me to respect the meaning of the word as humbug and not to confuse it with the word for nonsense.
