verb
definition
To issue a formal command.
definition
To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
example
Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
Examples of adjured in a Sentence
The suspicious nobles were solemnly adjured to trust themselves to hIs keeping, under promise of forgiveness.
Mr. Bonar Law was whole-heartedly in favour of the Coalition, and frequently adjured his Conservative friends to remain true to it.
But the spirit, though adjured with all solemnity, remained obstinately silent; and it soon appeared that a naughty girl of eleven had been amusing herself by making fools of so many philosophers.
During the persecution under Maximinus she sought an interview with the emperor, upbraided him for his cruelties, and adjured him to give up the worship of false gods.
Some of the Jews had married women of Ashdod, Ammon and Moab, and the impetuous governor indignantly adjured them to desist from a practice which was the historic cause of national sin.