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mansworn, ppl. a. and n.|ˈmænswɔːn|
[pa. pple. of manswear v.]
A. adj. Forsworn, perjured. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial.
a1300Cursor M. 25794 Monsuorn man to petre loke, þat thris on a night crist for-soke. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 3938 Tithandes tel i yow biforn, Other sal my lady be manesworn. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 87 For outhir, mon he be manesuorne or tyne his awin heretage. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiv. 100 The Deuill said then, ‘Of commoun la All mensworne folk man cum to me’. c1569Durham Depos. (Surtees) 89 Such maynsworn harlotts as thou art kepes me from it. c1610in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 305 Thou art a mensworn man. 1650Hobart Rep. 126 Slater brought an action of the case against Franks for saying, Thou art a main-sworne Lad, and a bankrupt Lad... It stood upon the word Maine-sworne: against which it was said, that it was an unknowne word in these parts, and of an uncertaine sense, though in the North parts it was understood to be as much as perjured, as forsworne with his hand upon the book. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. ii. iv, Mony lads will swear, And be mansworn to twa in half a year. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xv, I shall be man-sworn in the very thing in which my testimony is wanted. 1893Stevenson Catriona xiii. 145 Prestongrange promised me my life; if he's to be mansworn, here I'll have to die.
absol.a1300Cursor M. 23112 Murthereres and monsuorn als.
†B. n. Perjury. Obs.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S) 273 [He] walde..accus him of the crime of manesuorne. |