The corpus record — Latin

adjuro1

adjuro1 · v. a

to swear to

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Cistellaria 2 · 3.82/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 1 · 1.74/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ad-jūro — Lewis & Short

ad-jūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I 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. o)/mnumi tou\s qeou/s, 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 — Lewis & Short

adjūro, i. q. adjuvero, v. adjuvo.

In the wild

adiurat Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 10
adiuro Terence, Andria 4.2
adiurans Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.39
adiurat Plautus, Cistellaria 2.3
adiurat Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.15
adiuro Vergil, Aeneid 12.816

6 of 38 attestations shown.

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