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Jul 5, 2011
This week's themeContranyms, or words with an opposite set of meanings This week's words ravel adjure avocation inure adumbrate Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical plaintext or search the site 
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with Anu Gargadjure
PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-JOOR)
MEANING:
verb tr.:1. To command solemnly. 2. To request earnestly. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin adjurare (to put under oath), from ad- (to) + jurare (to swear),
from jus (law). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yewes- (law), which
is also the source of jury, judge, just, injury, perjury, conjure, and de jure. Earliest documented use: before 1425.
USAGE:
"If you go to Las Vegas -- and so many do -- please pay mind to the signs
in the park. They don't adjure you from feeding the pigeons. They forbid
feeding the homeless."Jacquelyn Mitchard; Please Do Feed the Unsightly Homeless; Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Oct 1, 2006. "'Use Absolut,' he adjures a waiter at the restaurant." Amanda Vaill; A Story of Reckless Passion and Race; Chicago Tribune; May 25, 2003. See more usage examples of adjure in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
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