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▪ I. † ˈmanswear, n. Obs.
In 1 mánswara, -swora, 3 manswore, monsware.
[OE. mánswara = ON. meinsvare wk. masc.; related to next.]
A perjurer.
971Blickl. Hom. 61 Myrþran, & manswaran. c1205Lay. 4149 Ne mai neuere mon sware mon-scipe longe aȝen. c1275Ibid. 22139 Bote he were so vuel bi-ȝete Þat he were louerd-swike oþer to his louerd man-swore.
▪ II. manswear, v. Obs. exc. arch. and dial.|ˈmænswɛə(r)|
Pa. tense -swore, pa. pple. -sworn. In 1 mánswerian, 5 manesuere, 5–6 mensweare, 6 manesweir, mansweare, -swere, mannsuere, mensuer, -suir, -sweir, 9 mainswear.
[OE. mánswęrian (pa. tense -swór, pa. pple. -sworen), f. mán man n.2 + swęrian to swear. Cf. manath.]
1. intr. To swear falsely.
1{ddd} Eccl. Inst. c. 21 in Thorpe Laws II. 416 Ne sweriᵹe he þylæs þe he man-sweriᵹe. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 843 The man mensueris he saw sic thing. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Mainswear, to swear falsely.
2. refl. To perjure oneself.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nycholas) 839 Þe quhilk, fra he mansuorn hym had, tuk his staf & mad na bad. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 248 What wit war it..that he suld brek his lautee to manesuere him for company. 1535Coverdale Wisd. xiv. 28 Either they..prophecie lyes, or lyue vngodly, or els lightly mansweare them selues. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. ii. 5 Willfullie yai man yame selves mensuir. a1622J. Welch in Burton Scot Abr. (1864) I. v. 286 He caused to take out of the grave the carcass of Formosus, who had mansworn himself. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 259, I made it clear..that Major Creighton and Mr. John Hay had both man-sworn themselves.
†3. trans. To swear falsely by (a god). Obs.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. (1822) 237 The pepil war nocht sa necligent in thay dayis as thay ar now to manswere thare Goddis, or to fals thare wourdis. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 74 Than man I outher reif or steill, Or than my Goddis name manesweir.
¶4. To renounce on oath, forswear. Obs.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvii. 90 Thir new maid knychtis lay bayth in swoun, And did all armes mensweir. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ix. 231 Normond Gourlai confirmet that al heresie he had mensworne afor ony man. |