Etymology

perjure

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Today it means: To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court. Full definition →

Old French parjurer
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  1. Old French · derived fromparjurer
  2. English todayperjure

From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.