Lexicon of Classical Latinisms, Liturgical Language, and Textual Hermeneutics

• To adjure — To earnestly entreat, implore, or insistently request someone to do something, invoking a sacred name, a divine authority, or a solemn oath; also, in ritualistic practices, to command or adjure spirits or demonic forces to obey or depart. Not to be confused with the verb 'abjura' (to renounce a faith).