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perjured
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perjure \Per"jure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perjured; p. pr. & vb. n. Perjuring.] [F. parjurer, L. perjurare, perjerare; per through, over + jurare to swear. See Jury.]
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To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal.
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To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations. [Obs.]
And with a virgin innocence did pray For me, that perjured her.
--J. Fletcher.Syn: To Perjure, Forswear.
Usage: These words have been used interchangeably; but there is a tendency to restrict perjure to that species of forswearing which constitutes the crime of perjury at law, namely, the willful violation of an oath administered by a magistrate or according to law.
Perjured \Per"jured\, a.
Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.
--Shak.
``Perjured persons.''
--1 Tim. i. 10. ``Their perjured
oath.''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: perjure)
Usage examples of "perjured".
Madagascar is the affidavit of Israel Phippany and Peter Freeland, at Portsmouth, March 31, 1705, and these mariners may have perjured themselves to save the lives of English seamen condemned by the Scots.
He handled the traitor contemptuously as a perjured, suborned witness, a false servant, a man who, as he proceeded to show, was a scoundrel steeped in crime, whose word was utterly worthless, and who, no doubt, had been bought to bring these charges against his sometime master.
And I know that it is not the heart of a perjured liar such as penned those lines.
I intended to make quite sure of ridding my country of that perjured tyrant.
I pay for having rid Nature of a monster and my country of a false, perjured tyrant, and I pay it gladly.
As for those who spoke up for Lord Hallmere, well, they perjured themselves as surely as I am sitting here, but they know him and trust his word and had clearly decided that there are several kinds of truth.
Goddard to be a liar who has perjured himself to try to get you hanged.
Duke prove that he and Croucher not only perjured themselves, but actually conspired together to bring false charges against me for which the only penalty was death.
These are the people who angrily defended a president who perjured himself, hid evidence, suborned perjury, was held in contempt by a federal court, was disbarred by the Supreme Court, and lied to his party, his staff, his wife, and the nation.
They must have come to the wrong address or they must have got the warrant on perjured evidence.
The bad news for the TV licensing authority was that eight more people had made complaints to the police about invasions of their homes based on either perjured evidence or plain lies.
If Robertson perjured himself on September 23, he withdrew his evidence, or rather, he omitted it, at the trial in November.
Manson was based on illegally obtained and perjured testimony, therefore the seizure of the person of Mr.
If he was amused at the ease with which fools can be humbugged, he must also have been astounded at the awful villainy of those who, perfect strangers to him, had perjured themselves for the sake of notoriety.
Many that hate Their kind are soon to know that without love Their faith is but the perjured name of nothing.