adjures

Verb

adjure (third-person singular simple present adjures, present participle adjuring, simple past and past participle adjured)

1. (transitive) To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge.
   • […] Caiaphas the high Prieſt adjureth him [Jesus] in the name of God, vvho is very God, euen the Sonne of God, vvhich ſhevves vvhat a ſmall account he makes of the name of God: for he did it onely to get aduantage on Chriſts vvords: and ſo doe many novve a-daies, vvho for a little profit or gaine...1595, William Perkins, “Christs Arraignement”, in An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles, According to the Tenour of the Scriptures, and the Content of Orthodoxe Fathers of the Church...
2. (transitive) To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort.
   • Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
3. (transitive) To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore.
   • I adiure you ô daughters of Ieruſalem, by the roes, and the hartes of the fildes, that you rayſe not, nor make the beloued to avvake, vntil herſelfe vvil.1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Canticle of Canticles 2:7, page 336

   Synonyms:

   beg, beseech, plead

4. (transitive) To summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).
   • The Prieſt ties his ſtole about the neck of the poſſeſſed vvith three knots, and ſays, […] I exorciſe you [evil spirits], and adjure you, and command you, by the povver I have, that you incontinently hear the vvords of my conjuring, and perceive your ſelves overcome, and command you not to depart...1664, Jeremy [Taylor], “The Church of Rome, as It is at this Day Disordered, Teaches Doctrines, and Uses Practises, which are in Themselves, or in Their True and Immediate Consequences, Direct...
5. (intransitive) To summon the Devil or an evil spirit; also, to exorcize the Devil or an evil spirit.
   • His daily exerciſe is to exorciſe or adjure.1649, Richard Hodges, Most Plain Directions for True-writing: […], London: […] W. D. for Rich[ard] Hodges […]; [a]lso by Nicolas Bourn, […], published 1653, →OCLC, page 7