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perjure en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɝd͡ʒɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈpɜːd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A perjured person.
    • He comes in like a perjure, wearing papers c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
perjures Number=Plur lexicographic

perjure en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɝd͡ʒɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈpɜːd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.

Meanings

  1. (reflexive) To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
    • He perjured himself.
  2. (transitive) 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.
    • Want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal. c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xii]:
  3. (transitive) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
    • And with a virgin innocence did pray / For me, that perjured her. 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
perjures Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
perjuring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
perjured Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
perjured Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

perjurer · unperjured · perjuror

Relateds

perjury

Synonyms

forswear · misswear · manswear

Translations (22)

es perjurar (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · da mened (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · cs křivopřísežnictví (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · de einen Meineid schwören (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · pl krzywoprzysiąc (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · sk krivoprísažníctvo (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · ca perjurar (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · sv begå mened (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · cmn 作伪证 (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · la peierō (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · la periūrō (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · nl meineed plegen (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · bg лъжесвидетелствам (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · fi vannoa väärä vala (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · pl krzywoprzysięgać (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · ru лжесвидетельствовать (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · de lügen (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · hu hamisan tanúzik (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · pl krzywoprzysięgnąć (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · de eine Falschaussage machen (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · ang forswerian (knowingly make a false statement of witness) · fr parjurer (knowingly make a false statement of witness)