DictionaryRoot: ad-
Latin

ad-

to, toward; addition; sometimes emphasis

Forms

  • ad-
  • ac- — Used before c in Latin.
  • af- — Used before f in Latin.
  • ag- — Used before g in Latin.
  • al- — Used before l in Latin.
  • ap- — Used before p in Latin.
  • ar- — Used before r in Latin.
  • as- — Used before s in Latin.
  • at- — Used before t in Latin.

Origin

Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *ad, ‘to; near.’

Note

Later Latin-based spellings sometimes restored consonants that had disappeared in French.

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verb

adjure

uh-JOOR/əˈdʒʊr/

To solemnly urge someone to do something.

The woman adjures the reluctant resident to leave the flood-threatened home.

A woman solemnly appeals to a reluctant resident to leave a flood-threatened home, holding her gaze and placing a hand over her heart while indicating the waiting rescue boat.
Etymology

The oath-taking root gives this appeal its solemn force: to adjure people originally meant to bind or charge them by an oath, rather than merely ask.

In context

Esoteric Atlanta48:16
and the high priest answered and said unto him i adjure thee by the living god
Part 5: Gospel of the Holy 12: A Reading of Section 8, Lection 71-80

More examples

  • She adjured him to tell the complete truth.
  • I adjure you to consider the consequences before you act.
  • The speaker kept adjuring the audience to remember their duty.

Forms

adjure · adjures · adjured · adjuring

Similar words

urge
The more ordinary term, without the solemn emphasis.
implore
Emphasizes desperate pleading rather than a solemn appeal to duty.