adjurations

Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.

In the Valley of the Shadow

He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.

A Different Stripe:

Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.

In the Valley of the Shadow

Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.

In the Valley of the Shadow

He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.

Translation

Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.

In the Valley of the Shadow

He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.

On Douglas Parmée

Then Affan taught Bulukiya adjurations and conjurations galore and said to him, ‘Repeat these conjurations and cease not repeating until I take the ring.’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying upstairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth; and after most pathetic adjurations from

Barnaby Rudge

Our pontifical writers retain many of these adjurations and forms of exorcisms still in the church; besides those in baptism used, they exorcise meats, and such as are possessed, as they hold, in Christ's name.

Anatomy of Melancholy