adjuro

1.

ad-jūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to swear to, to confirm by an oath. —With acc., or acc. and inf., or ut.

I.

Lit.:

eam suam esse filiam sancte adjurabat mihi,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 27; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 26:

adjurasque id te me invito non esse facturum,

Cic. Phil. 2, 9; id. Q. Fr. 2, 8; 3, 5; id. 9, 19; Liv. 7, 5; Suet. Aug. 31; id. Ner. 24; id. Tit. 9; Ov. H. 20, 159; Stat. Th. 7, 129; Just. 24, 2.— Absol.:

adjurat,

Cic. Att. 2, 20.—

II.

Transf.

A.

To swear by any person or thing:

per omnes deos adjuro, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 8:

per omnes tibi adjuro deos numquam eam me deserturum,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 11; Cic. Phil. 2, 4.—In the poetry of the Aug. per. after the manner of the Greek, with the acc. of that by which one swears (cf. omnumi tous theous, in L. and S.):

adjuro Stygii caput implacabile fontis,

Verg. A. 12, 816:

adjuro teque tuomque caput,

Cat. 66, 40.—

B.

To swear to something in addition:

censores edixerunt, ut praeter commune jus jurandum haec adjurarent, etc.,

Liv. 43, 14.—

C.

In later Lat., to conjure or adjure, to beg or entreat earnestly:

adjuratum esse in senatu Tacitum, ut optimum aliquem principem faceret,

Vop. Flor. 1.—

D.

In the Church Fathers, to adjure (in exorcising):

daemones Dei nomine adjurati de corporibus excedunt,

Lact. 2, 15.

2.

adjūro, i. q. adjuvero, v. adjuvo.