ppl. a. [f. ADJURE + -ED.]
† 1. Bound by oath. Obs.
1598. Yong, Diana, 25.
What cruell minde, what angry brest displaied, | |
With sauage hart, to fiercenes so adiured. |
2. Solemnly charged, earnestly entreated or appealed to.
1671. Milton, Samson, 853. Solicited, commanded, threatend, urgd, Adjurd by all the bonds of civil duty.
1697. Dryden, Eneid, II. 209 (Lat. 155). Ye sacred altars! from whose flames I fled, Be all of you adjurd.