Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge. · To earnestly advise or urge (someone); to exhort. · To earnestly appeal to (someone, or a deity); to entreat, to implore. · To summon (the Devil or an evil spirit); to invoke; also, to exorcize (the Devil or an evil spirit).
From Late Middle English adjuren (“to bind (oneself or someone) by oath to do something; to entreat or implore (someone); to question (someone) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman adjurer, Middle French adjurer, and Old French ajurer (“to bind (oneself or someone) under oath; to entreat or implore (someone)”) (modern French adjurer), and from their etymon Latin adiūrāre, the present active infinitive of adiūrō (“to take an oath”) (whence Late Latin adiūrō (“to entreat or implore (someone); to conjure; to exorcize”)), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’, or having an intensifying effect) + iūrō (“to confirm formally; to take an oath”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) straight; upright; (noun) justice, right; law”)). cognates * Italian adiurare * Old Occitan ajurar * Spanish ajurar (archaic), adjurar
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- Root classification mention*h₂yew-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionadjurenenm · to bind (oneself or someone) by oath to do something; to entreat or implore (someone); to question (someone) under oath
- Derivation mentionadjurerfrm
- Derivation mentionajurerfro · to bind (oneself or someone) under oath; to entreat or implore (someone)
- Cognate mentionadjurerfr
- Derivation mentionadiūrārela
- Derivation mention*h₂yew-ine-pro · (adjective) straight; upright; (noun) justice, right; law
- Cognate mentionadiurareit
- Cognate mentionajurarpro
- Cognate mentionajurares
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