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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
adjure .
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Examples
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A government spokesman also adjured German companies to use their "moral sense" when doing business with Iran and that "the government is expecting some sensitivity from businesses."
Abraham H. Foxman: Europe's Contradictions on Iran Sanctions Abraham H. Foxman 2011
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[...] The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
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"When I die, Billy, you must bury me in a redwood grove," Saxon adjured.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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In his 2005 Stanford Commencement address, Jobs, then on the mend, adjured the graduates, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
John Maeda: Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam John Maeda 2011
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A government spokesman also adjured German companies to use their "moral sense" when doing business with Iran and that "the government is expecting some sensitivity from businesses."
Abraham H. Foxman: Europe's Contradictions on Iran Sanctions Abraham H. Foxman 2011
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Thus adjured, they all started bailing with a will.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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His last words were to his wife of fifty-two years, whom he is said to have kissed and adjured, “Live mindful of our marriage, Livia, and farewell.”
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Thus adjured, clinging to the shreds of her modesty because she was simply unable to help herself, Beth retired behind the one high-backed chair and, using it as a makeshift screen, exchanged the quilt for the fresh chemise and petticoat that had been laid out for her, then slipped into her stays.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Thus adjured, clinging to the shreds of her modesty because she was simply unable to help herself, Beth retired behind the one high-backed chair and, using it as a makeshift screen, exchanged the quilt for the fresh chemise and petticoat that had been laid out for her, then slipped into her stays.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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