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To adjure someone is to ask them very strongly to do something, almost as if you were putting them under a promise. It can feel like an order, and it can feel like begging: the old sense is to bind a person by an oath. You meet it in stories, sermons, and legal-sounding English, not in the school corridor. A character in a book might adjure a friend to tell the truth, or adjure people not to open a door. Though actually, most people today would say beg, urge, or ask in a very serious way. The word is old and heavy; if you use it in ordinary talk, it will sound like theatre.
懇請、嚴令、起誓要求（文言、文學用語；日常說「懇求」或「鄭重要求」）
組成From Late Middle English adjuren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French adjurer, from Latin adiūrāre: ad- ("to, towards", or making it stronger) + iūrō ("to take an oath").
同家族的字
- juryfrom the same Latin iūrō, "to swear an oath" — a jury is sworn in
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adjureverb/əˈd͡ʒʊə/
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To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge.
- […] Caiaphas the high Prieſt adjureth him [Jesus] in the name of God, vvho is very God, euen the Sonne of God, vvhich ſhevves vvhat a ſmall account he makes of the name of God: for he did it onely to get aduantage on Chriſts vvords: and ſo doe many novve a-daies, vvho for a little profit or gaine make a matter of nothing to abuſe the name of God a thouſand vvaies.
- And Joſhua adiured them at that time, ſaying, Curſed be the man before the Lord, that riſeth vp and buildeth this city Jericho: he ſhall lay the foundation therof in his firſt borne, and in his yongeſt ſonne ſhall hee ſet vp the gates of it.
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To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort.
- Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
- […] Neſtor moſt / (The ſage Preſerver of the Grecian Hoſt) / Exhorts, adjures, to guard theſe utmoſt Shores; / And by their Parents, by themſelves, implores.
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To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore.
- I adiure you ô daughters of Ieruſalem, by the roes, and the hartes of the fildes, that you rayſe not, nor make the beloued to avvake, vntil herſelfe vvil.
- [H]ow thoroughly as with thy cheerful voice thou pleasantly adjurest Sam the hostler "not to let him go yet," dost thou believe that quadruped desires to go, and would go if he might?
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ChristianityTo summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).
- The Prieſt ties his ſtole about the neck of the poſſeſſed vvith three knots, and ſays, […] I exorciſe you [evil spirits], and adjure you, and command you, by the povver I have, that you incontinently hear the vvords of my conjuring, and perceive your ſelves overcome, and command you not to depart vvithout licenſe, and ſo I bind you vvith this ſtole of jucundity; […]
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ChristianityTo summon the Devil or an evil spirit; also, to exorcize the Devil or an evil spirit.
- His daily exerciſe is to exorciſe or adjure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。