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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adjure .
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Examples
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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."
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012
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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."
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012
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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."
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012
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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."
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012
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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.”
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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.
May « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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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.”
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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.
norbert blei | basho’s road « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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'Finally, she adjures you to consider, that if you still persevere to consume your time in wilful negligence, to bury all thought in idle gaiety, and to act without either reflection or principle, the career of faults which begins but in unthinking folly, will terminate in shame, in guilt, and in ruin!
Camilla 2008
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Do ye hear her words, how loudly she adjures Themis, oft invoked, and Zeus, whom men regard as keeper of their oaths?
Medea 2008
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