#adjurare

• Adjuration — The act of adjuring and its result; the solemn commanding, conjuring, or imploring of someone through the invocation of a supreme authority or a sacred oath. In old liturgical treatises, it represented the verbal formula or ritual whereby an exorcist commanded negative spiritual entities to submit to divine order.
• Adjuration — A solemn formula of invocation, earnest entreaty, or imperative command by which someone is requested to do or say something based on an oath or in the name of a sacred entity; also, the act of conjuring or expelling evil spirits. It represents the bookish neologistic equivalent of the term 'adjurare'.
• Adjuration — An archaic and bookish variant of the noun 'adjurare' or 'adjurație', representing a solemn formula of invocation, earnest entreaty, or imperative command based on a sacred oath. In old ecclesiastical or legal texts, it was used to express the supreme moral or spiritual constraint exercised upon a witness or a spirit.