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Definition of Adjuratory
1. Adjective. Earnestly or solemnly entreating. "In adjuratory terms"
2. Adjective. Containing a solemn charge or command.
Definition of Adjuratory
1. a. Containing an adjuration.
Definition of Adjuratory
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an adjuration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adjuratory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjuratory
Literary usage of Adjuratory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1851)
"The words in question appeared to him to be a part of the oath which Members were
bound to take, though they might partake of an adjuratory character. ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1852)
"... the words in question were of the have declared that the Jew, not substance
of the oath or of an excluded by common law principle adjuratory character, ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"Done ; done with ; have (Mai. sudah ; habis) : ja' (used as an auxiliary verb ;
eg О 75 ; but also used in an adjuratory sense, eg oi ja', "come here, ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1852)
"Whether the words in question were of the substance of the oath or of an adjuratory
character, he could find no authority for omitting them. ..."
5. The Spaniards & Their Country by Richard Ford (1852)
"... according to Pliny, onions and garlic were worshipped as adjuratory divinities.
The Spaniards have also added most of the gloomy northern Gothic oaths, ..."
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