adjures

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!

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

'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

Do ye hear her words, how loudly she adjures Themis, oft invoked, and Zeus, whom men regard as keeper of their oaths?

Medea

In my township a citizen lives: Catullus adjures thee

Poems and Fragments

Above all, he adjures us when travelling never to omit to carry a hammer and nails, a crowbar, an iron pin or two, a large knife, and a bladder of grease.

Travels through France and Italy

Lord Chesterfield adjures him to respect them both.

The Common Reader, Second Series

He adjures his companions on the battlements to keep his secret by swearing, 'So grace and mercy at your most need help you'.

Shakespeare

Wounded, dishonoured, unsuccessful in her search, and almost in despair, the bride turns to the daughters of Jerusalem; and recounting the story of her sorrows, adjures them to tell her Beloved that she is not unfaithful or unmindful of Him.

Union and Communion