Definition of "adjure"

adjure

/ədˈdʒʊə/

verb
third-person singular simple present adjures, present participle adjuring, simple past and past participle adjured
1. (transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
2. (transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
  Quotations
  `Then tell to me, and this great company, the tale whereof I have heard.' Thus adjured, I, in as few words as I could, related the history of the cannibal feast, and of the attempted torture of our poor servant.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
  The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
  1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50