Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or comprising an oath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to or comprising an oath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to or comprising an
oath .
Etymologies
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Latin juratorius; compare French juratoire.
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Examples
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If he should not be sent as prisoner, it will not be right to do so until his offense be investigated here; accordingly the commissary may discharge him under bail or under juratory security.
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Either he must confess that he was personally interested in the matter and then he would not be required to swear but would at the same time make himself an object of suspicion, or else he must go on paying this infernal toll money in order to be able to cross the non-juratory bridge, so to speak.
The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864
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