adjure:

to urge or request earnestly

adjure:

to urge or request earnestly

(Verb)

Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  On the eve of the war, two of Ravana’s elders, his uncle Malyadan and his father-in-law Maya, adjured him to accept Angada’s peace proposal by returning Sita to Rama.

Mahabharata:  On the seventeenth day of the Kurukshetra war, Ashvattama adjured Duryodhana to call off the hostilities and return the Pandavas their half of the kingdom.

Bhagavad-gita:  At the start of the Gita’s second chapter, Arjuna submits to Krishna as his student and adjures him to explain what dharma is (02.07).

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