adjure🔊

(transitive)

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.

To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort.

To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore.

(Christianity) To summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).

(Christianity) To summon the Devil or an evil spirit; also, to exorcize the Devil or an evil spirit.