Meanings
verbperjure (third-person singular simple present perjures, present participle perjuring, simple past and past participle perjured)
present singular third person perjures · participle present perjuring · participle past perjured · past perjured
- transitiveTo 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] - transitiveTo 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
nounperjure (plural perjures)
plural perjures
- obsoleteA 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]
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Frenchparjurer
- Englishperjure
From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.
More words from Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian лъжесвидетелствам
- лъжесвидетелствам (lăžesvidetelstvam)knowingly make a false statement of witness
Catalan perjurar
- perjurarknowingly make a false statement of witness
Chinese Mandarin 作伪证
- 作伪证knowingly make a false statement of witness
Czech křivopřísežnictví
- křivopřísežnictvíknowingly make a false statement of witness
Danish mened
- menedknowingly make a false statement of witness
Dutch meineed plegen
- meineed plegenknowingly make a false statement of witness
Finnish vannoa väärä vala
- vannoa väärä valaknowingly make a false statement of witness
French parjurer
- parjurerknowingly make a false statement of witness
German einen Meineid schwören, eine Falschaussage machen
- einen Meineid schwörenknowingly make a false statement of witness
- eine Falschaussage machenknowingly make a false statement of witness
- lügenknowingly make a false statement of witness
Hungarian hamisan tanúzik
- hamisan tanúzikknowingly make a false statement of witness
Latin periūrō, peierō
- periūrōknowingly make a false statement of witness
- peierōknowingly make a false statement of witness
Polish krzywoprzysięgać, krzywoprzysięgnąć
- krzywoprzysięgaćknowingly make a false statement of witness
- krzywoprzysięgnąćknowingly make a false statement of witness
- krzywoprzysiącknowingly make a false statement of witness
Russian лжесвидетельствовать
- лжесвидетельствовать (lžesvidetelʹstvovatʹ)knowingly make a false statement of witness
Slovak krivoprísažníctvo
- krivoprísažníctvoknowingly make a false statement of witness
Spanish perjurar
- perjurarknowingly make a false statement of witness
Swedish begå mened
- begå menedknowingly make a false statement of witness
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with perjure
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