MEANING
To appeal to someone with solemn urgency to do something.
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Words that belong together
- adjure someone to speak
- solemnly adjure
On the page
She adjured him to tell the truth before the doors were opened.
The priest adjured the witnesses to remember their oath.
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Word forms
- Base
- adjure
- Past tense
- adjured
- Past participle
- adjured
- Present participle
- adjuring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- adjure
- Present continuous
- am/is/are adjuring
- Present perfect
- have/has adjured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been adjuring
- Past
- adjured
- Past continuous
- was/were adjuring
- Past perfect
- had adjured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been adjuring
- Future
- will adjure
- Future continuous
- will be adjuring
- Future perfect
- will have adjured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been adjuring
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: adjure; adjures; adjured; adjured; adjuring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: adjures.
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