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perjured, ppl. a. (n.)|ˈpɜːdʒəd|
[pa. pple. of prec. vb., after AF. perjuré, OF. parjuré pa. pple. of the intrans. vb., lit. (one) that has perjured or committed perjury. (From viewing it in Eng. as passive, app. arose the quasi-passive const. of the vb.: see prec. 1 d.)]
1. That has committed perjury; guilty of perjury; forsworn; deliberately false to an oath, vow, promise, etc.
1453in Trevelyan Papers (Camden) 25 If he [the chaplain] be lecherus or perjured, a theaff, or a murderar. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 25 §6 To call in the supposed perjured persones afore the seid Chaunceller. 1558T. Phaer æneid ii. D ij, By this deceit, and through the craft of Sinon false periewrd. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iv. 55 Clarence is come, false, fleeting, periur'd Clarence. 1682Burnet Rights Princes Pref. 37 In which Case he is in truth neither a Liar nor is he perjured. 1709Steele Tatler No. 105 ⁋3, I hope you won't be such a perjured Wretch as to forswear your self. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 87 Perjured traitors who richly deserved axes and halters.
b. absol. and quasi-n.
1526Tindale 1 Tim. i. 10 The lawe is..geven..to lyars and to periured. 1604T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 28 How many villains were in Spain,..how many perjurds in France. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 54 Thou Periur'd, and thou Simular of Vertue.
†2. Characterized by perjury; perjurious. Obs.
In quot. 1588 alluding to the former practice of attaching to a convicted perjurer a paper announcing his guilt: cf. quot. 1546 s.v. perjury, and paper n. 7 b.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 125 O would the King, Berowne and Longauill, Were Louers too, ill to example ill, Would from my forehead wipe a periur'd note: For none offend, where all alike doe dote. a1635Corbet Elegie on Dr. Ravis Poems (1647) 18 Their hired Epitaphs, and perjur'd stone, Which oft belies the soule when she is gone. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xxvii, By her who brooks his perjured scorn, The ill-requited Maid of Lorn.
†3. Falsely sworn; forsworn. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 40 The recompence of their periured oth. 1697Dryden Virg. Ecl. viii. 25, I my Nisa's perjur'd Faith deplore; Witness ye Pow'rs by whom she falsly swore!
Hence ˈperjuredly adv., in the manner of one perjured; with perjury; perjuriously.
1553Bale tr. Gardiner's De Vera Obed. Pref. A v, These incarnate Devilles, who coulde so advisedly saye yea than, and so impudently, so rashely, so periuredly..saye naye now. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 258/2 King Steuen..ended hys lyfe after he had reigned xix. yeares periuredly. |