Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make (oneself) guilty of perjury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perjured person.
- To swear falsely; be false to oaths or vows; bear false witness.
- To render guilty of the crime of testifying falsely under oath or solemn affirmation, especially in judicial or official proceedings, or of being false to one's oaths or vows; forswear: commonly used reflexively: as, the witness perjured himself.
- To swear falsely to; deceive by false oaths or protestations.
- Synonyms Perjure, Forswear. Perjure is now technical and particular; strictly, it is limited to taking a legal oath falsely; occasionally it is used for forswear. Forswear is general, but somewhat old-fashioned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A perjured person.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb obsolete To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb reflexive To
knowingly andwillfully make afalse statement ofwitness while incourt . - noun obsolete A perjured person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself.
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Ms. Chiesi testified that she could remember almost everything that was said that morning in her apartment, including one agent getting along with her cat, and the last thing she would want do is " perjure " herself on the stand.
Galleon Figure Says FBI Didn Chad Bray 2010
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On Monday, Ms. Chiesi testified that she could remember almost everything that was said that morning in her apartment, including one agent getting along with her cat, and the last thing she would want do is " perjure " herself on the stand.
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And indeed, they could have nailed him on perjury because he did, in fact, perjure himself when asked under oath where he got the bugging equipment.
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And indeed, they could have nailed him on perjury because he did, in fact, perjure himself when asked under oath where he got the bugging equipment.
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Nominees may not perjure themselves, of course, but nothing in Roberts 'testimony along these lines can fairly be characterized as perjury.
Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nominees may not perjure themselves, of course, but nothing in Roberts 'testimony along these lines can fairly be characterized as perjury.
Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts Amanda Terkel 2010
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And indeed, they could have nailed him on perjury because he did, in fact, perjure himself when asked under oath where he got the bugging equipment.
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You didn't perjure yourself, so you don't have impeachment to worry about.
SC GOP chair says Sanford should consider stepping down 2009
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And indeed, they could have nailed him on perjury because he did, in fact, perjure himself when asked under oath where he got the bugging equipment.
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