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Definition of Adjured
1. adjure [v] - See also: adjure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjured
Literary usage of Adjured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"... over his head without a message or an injury, which he desired God not to
remember against his adversaries, and adjured all his friends to forget. ..."
2. Library Notes by Addison Peale Russell (1875)
"Herder, one of the most comprehensive thinkers and versatile authors of Germany,
we are told, adjured Goethe not to take so unpromising a subject as Faust. ..."
3. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic by Adam Ferguson (1839)
"1 He adjured Decimus Brutus, by the example of Octavius, who, though in a private
station, raised armies for the state ; he adjured him by the example of ..."
4. Walter Savage Landor: A Biography by John Forster (1869)
"... because his fellow-jurymen, whom with himself his lordship had adjured to lay
before him whatever they might bave heard of felony committed in the ..."
5. The Power-holding Class Versus the Public: Imaginary Dialogue of McKinley by John Henry Greene, John Henry Keene (1900)
"... except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time, as Micaiah
did before Ahab, until she be adjured into her own likeness." —Milton. ..."
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