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Adjuration

Adjuration \Ad`ju*ra"tion\, n. [L. adjuratio, fr. adjurare: cf. F. adjuration. See Adjure.]

  1. The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.

    What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.
    --Bp. Hall.

  2. The form of oath or appeal.

    Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations.
    --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjuration

late 14c., "exorcism," from Late Latin adjurationem (nominative adjuratio) "a swearing to," noun of action from past participle stem of adjurare (see adjure). Originally a term in exorcism (with conjuration). General sense is from 17c.

Wiktionary
adjuration

n. 1 A grave warning 2 A solemn oath

WordNet
adjuration

n. a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something

Usage examples of "adjuration".

The danger is that it invokes only spirits of time, and such monoclinal adjurations risk perturbing the diametric complement, which in the case of time is chance, thus hazarding aberrant and unpredictable eventualities.

A tall, lank-haired man, looking more like an undertaker than a divine of any denomination, read straight through, without a syllable of preface, the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and then, kneeling down, began a rambling, extemporaneous prayer, the main object of which seemed to be, to address the Deity by as many periphrastic adjurations as possible.

Shouts of laughter rent the air, which had such an intimidating effect on Eazas and Cerberus that not all the adjurations of the exorcists could extract the slightest response.

These were glowing adjurations that might be a hundred kilometers long, lettered in elongated characters designed to be intelligible only to one hurtling past them at a distance of a few centimeters and a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour.

It was plain enough that Mr. Jarndyce had not been neglectful of the adjuration.

Greek what she had just said in Latin she made no reply, and on the adjuration being renewed she immediately recovered her senses.