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单词 adjure
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adjurev.

Brit. /əˈdʒʊə/, /əˈdʒɔː/, U.S. /əˈdʒʊ(ə)r/, /æˈdʒʊ(ə)r/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s adiure, late Middle English 1600s– adjure.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French adjurer; Latin adiūrāre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French adjurer (French adjurer ) to bind (oneself) under oath (1174 in Old French as ajurer , used reflexively), to bind (a person) under oath (1225 as ajurer ), to entreat (a person) earnestly, beseech, implore (a person) (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin adiūrāre to affirm with an oath, swear, to swear by, in post-classical Latin also to bind by oath, to entreat, beseech (Vulgate), to conjure, exorcize (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < ad- ad- prefix + iūrāre to swear (see jurant adj.). Compare Old Occitan ajurar (c1330), Spanish adjurar (second half of the 13th cent. as ajurar ), Italian adiurare (14th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier adjuration n., adjurer n.The French form adjurer shows remodelling of the earlier variant ajurer after the classical Latin verb.
1. transitive. To bind under oath; to command or appeal to (a person) to do something in the name of God or a god, or under penalty of some punishment or curse.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise or vow [verb (transitive)] > bind by a promise
conjurec1290
to speak for ——a1300
avow1303
adjurea1425
surec1460
arrest1489
gage1489
insure1530
pledge1571
fiance1592
objure1609
sacrament1621
attest1685
the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)]
waryc725
accurselOE
forcurse1154
cursec1175
for-waryc1175
bana1275
ashend1297
to bid (something) misadventurec1330
shrew1338
beshrew1377
maledighta1400
to fare (also go, come) to mischancec1400
defyc1430
destinya1450
condemn1489
detest1533
adjure1539
beshrompa1549
widdle1552
becurse1570
malison1588
consecrate1589
exaugurate1600
execrate1612
imprecate1616
blasta1634
damna1640
vote1644
to swear at ——1680
devote1749
maledict1780
comminate1801
bless1814
peste1824
cuss1863
bedamn1875
mugger1951
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 3 Kings xviii. 10 He haþ adiured [a1425 L.V. chargide greetli; L. adiuravit] alle rewmys & folkis for þi þat þou art not founden.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 43 I Charge and adiure yow all by the names of all our gloryous goddes that ye saye to me the trouth.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 181 (MED) Seynte Aldelme adiured [L. adiurat] that childe..that hit scholde confesse openly and if Sergius the pope were fader to hit.
1539 Bible (Great) 1 Sam. xiv. 28 Thy father adiured the people [ Wyclif, boond the puple with an ooth], saying: Cursed be the man that eateth any sustinaunce.
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) xiv. 214 These (of whom we speake) haue heard the voice, and forme of the oath, haue bene adiured in God, and in her Maiesties name.
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. vi. 26 Ioshua adiured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth vp and buildeth this city Iericho. View more context for this quotation
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 39 The woman..was adjur'd by the Priest to swear whether she were fals or no.
1736 ‘Zelis’ Celenia II. 351 Rosanna..adjured me to tell her the whole truth, threatning me with her eternal Hatred if I conceal'd the least Circumstance from here.
1761 J. Wesley Let. 10 Apr. (1931) IV. 150 Suppose..one of his flock adjures me for Christ's sake to tell him what he must do to be saved.
1833 W. Stevens View of Rise & Fall Judah & Israel 149 Upon being solemnly adjured by Ahab to speak nothing but the truth, in the name of Jehovah [etc.].
1870 Christian Witness Jan. 35 When a solemn oath was pronounced by the priest, the response of the person who was adjured consisted simply of the word, ‘Amen’.
1906 L. O'Rourke tr. H. A. Taine Balzac v. 204 His wife adjures him in the name of God.
1995 G. J. C. Snoek Medieval Piety iii. 149 The priest adjured him by the Trinity, baptism, the Gospel and the relics contained in the church not to approach the altar nor to receive communion should he be guilty.
2. transitive. To make a solemn or earnest appeal to (a person); to say by way of adjuration, to exhort. Also: to entreat or appeal to (God or a god).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > appeal to or invoke
halsec825
askOE
witnec1200
halsenc1290
calla1325
incalla1340
to speak to ——1362
interpel1382
inclepec1384
turnc1384
becallc1400
ethec1400
peala1425
movec1450
provoke1477
adjure1483
invoke1490
conjurea1500
sue1521
invocatea1530
obtest1548
obtestate1553
to throw oneself on (or upon)1592
obsecrate1598
charm1599
to cry on ——1609
behight1615
imprecate1643
impray1855
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 78/2 Raguel desired and adjured [L. adiuravit (Tobit 8:23)] Thobie that he shold abyde with hym.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Pref. The earnest intreatie of my friends daily requesting, importuning, and as it were adiuring me.
1648 B. Ryves Angliae Ruina 198 He..prayed for his Persecutors, and adjured his friends not to harbour a thought of revenge.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 794 Nestor most..Exhorts, adjures, to guard these utmost Shores.
1746 J. Wesley Let. 17 June (1931) II. 232 They are one of the strongest forms of obtestation, of adjuring God to show mercy, by all His grace and truth and love?
1844 E. B. Barrett Dead Pan in Poems II. 269 Gods! we vainly do adjure you.
1871 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 87/2 They adjured her to remember that such partings were not forever.
1928 E. A. Powell Embattled Borders vi. 228 ‘Quiet down, Bill,’ one of his companions adjured him. ‘You're making altogether too much noise.’
1988 P. Fussell Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 205 ‘Don't use language your mother would blush to hear,’ the American soldier is adjured by a YMCA pamphlet of 1918.
2004 I. Wallerstein in S. Dasgupta Changing Face of Globalization 87 We were adjured to respect each other, to respect everyone.
3. transitive. To invoke, summon, or exorcize (an evil spirit). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [verb (intransitive)] > as everyday imprecation
adjure1585
cuss1838
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [verb (transitive)] > invoke (a spirit)
conjurec1290
reara1382
to call upc1390
raisec1395
devocatec1570
adjure1585
invoke1602
evoke1623
incantate1623
conjure1637
excitea1639
evocate1675
incant1926
1585 R. Greene Planetomachia sig. G3v Hee was faine to fall to flatte coniuring, wherein after hee had swette lyke a dogge to adiure the Dyuell.
1590 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 309 If thou..have no cunning, but set a face on things, then take heed how you adjure these spirits.
1649 R. Hodges Plainest Direct. 8 His daily exercise is to exorcise or adjure.
1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. x. 233 I exorcise you, and adjure you, and command you, by the power I have, that you incontinently hear the words of my conjuring, and perceive your selves overcome, and command you not to depart without license, and so I bind you with this stole of jucundity.
1854 W. G. Simms Southward Ho! xviii. 460 The devil had been adjured by the terrible chief of the crew, and he had answered with awful sounds from a neighboring thicket.
1928 F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait tr. R. Fülöp-Miller Rasputin xii. 242 Iliodor did everything that an Orthodox priest can do in such cases, sprinkled the woman with holy water, bent over her and said the prescribed prayers, placed a big crucifix over her head, and adjured the devil until the sweat poured down his face.
2008 D. Collins Magic in Anc. Greek World iii. 90 Later, the speaker adjures or ‘exorcises’ (horkizein), which means to bind to an oath, a series of Jewish demons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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