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adjuration|ˌædʒ(ɪ)ʊˈreɪʃən|
[ad. (directly or through Fr. adjuration, 16th c. in Litt.) L. adjūrātiōn-em, n. of action f. adjūrā-re: see adjure.]
The action of adjuring; a solemn charging or appealing to (one) upon oath, or under penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
1611Cotgr., Adjuration, An adjuration, or conjuration; an earnest swearing unto; also, th' exaction of an oath from others. a1638Mede On Zach. iv. 10, Wks. I. 42 S. Paul speaks in adjuration to Timothy, ‘I charge thee (saith he) before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Elect Angels.’ 1738Clarke Wks. II. cxxv. (R.) Our Saviour when the high-priest adjured him by the living God, made no scruple of replying upon that adjuration. 1803Miss Porter Thadd. Warsaw i. (1831) 5 My sobs followed this adjuration. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. xxiii. 530 An adjuration as vain as it was earnest. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 160 The Rivers are expressly invoked, in this character, by Agamemnon in the adjuration of the Poet: and are associated with the deities that punish perjury after death.
b. spec. in exorcism.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 529 Thilke horrible sweryng of adjuracioun and conjuraciouns, as doon these false enchauntours or nigromanciens. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. i. i. i. (1651) 221 Our Pontificiall writers retain many of these adjurations and forms of exorcismes. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 158 An Adiuration of the Divell and a Renuntiation or renouncing of him. 1751Chambers Cycl., Adjuration, a part of exorcism, wherein the devil is commanded in the name of God, to depart out of the body of the possessed. 1875B. Taylor Faust I. vi. 109 Come, draw thy circle, speak thine adjuration. |