conjurement
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
conjurement (countable and uncountable, plural conjurements)
- (obsolete) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
- 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
- I had not yet at this time been induc'd , but by your earnest intreaties and serious conjurements
References edit
“conjurement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.