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A solemn charge by one in authority to another to speak the truth under the obligation of an oath, as when Ahab adjured Micaiah, 1 Kings 22: 16, and when the high priest adjured our Lord. Matt. 26:
63. Also binding a person under a curse to do or not to do the thing enjoined, as in Joshua 6: 26; 1 Sam. 14: 24: cf. also Mark 5: 7; Acts 19: 13. Also a 'solemn charge,' as in 1 Thess. 5: 27, in the margin.