Definition of "adjures" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjure. (verb)

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• "Far less familiar at least to those whose only reference is "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is the fact that when Joseph's brothers leave him to journey back to their father, Jacob, Joseph adjures them to "Not argue along the way back home.""
• "Which is where I come in, as it happens: Mr. Galbraith invites me, nay, adjures me, to denounce Bush and his policies “in the name of conservatism.”"
• "Tosca, a raven-haired singer with dark eyes, is angered that the model he used had blue eyes, and she adjures him to darken the orbs of the lady in the painting."