Adjuration

Definition of the noun adjuration

What does adjuration mean as a name of something?

noun - plural: adjurations

1. a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something
   • lexical domain: Communicative Processes - nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
   • more generic words: appeal / entreaty / prayer = earnest or urgent request

Alternative definition of the noun adjuration

noun

1. a grave warning

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Exquisite Desire (2000)

Religion, the Erotic, and the Song of Songs by Carey Ellen Walsh

An adjuration is a command or enjoining solemnly, as under an oath. The refrain is weightier than advice. It functions as a directive delivered from the front of desire, and it is not optional. We and the women of Jerusalem are not meant to take it ...

The Nexus (2017)

Understanding Faith and Modern Culture by Jon H. Widener M.D.

Conjuration is the act of summoning or inviting evil through magic or incantation by a wizard, magician, or sorcerer, while adjuration is a solemn command entreating something undesirable, such as an evil spirit, to leave. An exorcism is a type ...

ترجمة معاني القران الكريم الي اللغة الانجليزية /نسخة معدلة عن ترجمة العلامة عبد اللة يوسف علي (1998)

An adjuration is a solemn appeal to a person or persons to do some act or to believe some important statement by the evidence of something great or sublime or remarkable or out of the ordinary. 3. On these subjects as thus defined, let us ...

»Höre die Wahrheit, wer sie auch spricht« (2014)

Stationen des Werks von Moses Maimonides vom islamischen Spanien bis ins moderne Berlin by Lukas Muehlethaler

First, the adjuration is the reason why this slender volume came to be. When the Jewish Museum Berlin was transforming the former flower market hall ( Blumengroßmarkthalle) of Berlin into a building to house the museum's new Academy, the ...

The Theology of Christian Perfection (2012)

by Antonio Royo Marin

Adjuration is an act of religion which consists in the invocation of the name of God or of some sacred thing to oblige another to perform or to cease performing some action.” When performed with due respect and under the necessary conditions ...

A Reply to Dr. Sharp's Review and Defence of His Dissertations on the Scripture Meaning of Aleim and Berith. By Julius Bate, A.M. (1755)

by Julius Bate

a carri age fign\fas a coach becaufe a coach is a carriage ; or an Oath fjgnifies an Adjuration, becaufe an Adjuration is an Oath.

A Reply to Dr. Sharp's Review and Defence of His Dissertations on the Scripture Meaning of Aleim and Berith (1755)

by Julius Bate

a carriage signifies a coach because a coach is a carriage; or an Oath fignifies an Adjuration, because an Adjuration is an Oath .

Kongo Political Culture (2000)

The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular by Wyatt MacGaffey

2' The adjuration is a string of ...

Zondervan Bible Dictionary (2009)

by J. D. Douglas, C. Merrill

ADJURATION. (See CURSE ) ...

English-Konkani Dictionary (1883)

by Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei

give adjuration. Curse, s. sirap, -pa, m.\ an, -ni, /. =/. adjuration; gal, -li,/. = /. abuse. Cursed, a. sirap podullo.

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings (2010)

A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship by Tremper Longman III, Peter Enns

Adjuration: ...

A primary dictionary of the English language (1860)

by Joseph Emerson Worcester

ADJURATION. ADVENTURE. Xd-jv-RX'ti<w» «. Act of charging another solemnly by word or oath. au-jure', r. a. To impose an oath upon ; to charge solemnly or earnestly. ad-jOst', v. a. To put in order ; to fit. £D-jDst'ment, n. The act of adjusting ...

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Scrabble value of A₁D₂J₈U₁R₁A₁T₁I₁O₁N₁

The value of this 10-letter word is 18 points, but it's not an accepted word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.

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