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• n  a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something

• New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City .
• You say that most smokers "can generally be persuaded to douse the weed with a mild adjuration.
• Says Gogarty, the adjuration worked.

News & Articles

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• Mike Hall: Remembering the quotable Dr. Karl
  The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me . . For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. That's a quote from "The Human Mind," written in 1930 by Dr. Karl Menninger.
  June 18, 2013 - The Topeka Capital-Journal