Crossword clues for abjure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abjured; p. pr. & vb. n. Abjuring.] [L. abjurare to deny upon oath; ab + jurare to swear, fr. jus, juris, right, law; cf. F. abjurer. See Jury.]
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
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To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors. ``Magic I here abjure.''
--Shak.Syn: See Renounce.
Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. i.
To renounce on oath.
--Bp. Burnet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(R:SOED5: page=5) 2 (context transitive obsolete historical English) To cause one to renounce or recant. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 3 (context transitive English) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 4 (context transitive English) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
WordNet
Usage examples of "abjure".
Will you abjure such of your deeds and sayings as have been condemned by the clerks?
I counsel you to appeal to the Church Universal as to whether you should abjure these articles or not.
I am ignorant by what arts they could determine the lofty emperor of the Greeks to abjure the catechism of his infancy, and to persecute the religion of his fathers.
Pope Adrian threatens them with a sentence of excommunication unless they speedily abjure this practical heresy.
Greeks I desire no communion, either in this world or in the next, and I abjure forever the Byzantine tyrant, his synod of Chalcedon, and his Melchite slaves.
Carthage, who was invested with civil and military power, provoked the sectaries, and even the Catholics of the Roman province, to abjure the religion as well as the authority of their tyrants.
We are willing to absolve you from them provided that first, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in our presence you abjure, curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church in the manner and form we will prescribe to you.
Eminences and of all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion justly conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
Our bargain was for three nights, and for three nights I lay with him, for I do not abjure my promise.
If he refuses to return and abjure his heresy and give fitting satisfaction, he is delivered to the secular Court to be punished.
And consequently I abjure all heresy, and renounce and revoke all who raise themselves against the Holy Roman and Apostolic Church, of whatever sect or error they be.
And consequently I abjure, detest, renounce and revoke every heresy which rears itself up against the Holy and Apostolic Church, of whatever sect or error it be, etc.
If he was gravely suspected, and refused to appear when he was summoned to answer for his faith, and was therefore excommunicated and had endured that excommunication obstinately for a year, but becomes penitent, let him be admitted, and abjure all heresy, in the manner explained in the sixth method of pronouncing sentence.
But if he shall appear, and not consent to abjure, let him be delivered as a truly impenitent heretic to the secular Court, as was explained in the tenth method.
But if they refuse to abjure, they are to be handed over to the secular Court for punishment.