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单词 mansworn
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manswornadj.n.

Brit. /ˈmanswɔːn/, U.S. /ˈmænˌswɔrn/, Scottish English /ˈmansworn/, Irish English /ˈmænswɒːrn/
Forms: see manswear v.; also 1500s mainsvornne (northern).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English mansworn , manswear v.
Etymology: < mansworn, past participle of manswear v.
Now archaic and regional (chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and U.S.).
A. adj.
Forsworn, perjured.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [adjective] > perjury > that has sworn falsely
forswornOE
mansworna1400
perjurea1450
perjuriousa1460
perjurousa1460
perjured1495
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 25794 (MED) Monsuorn man to petre loke, þat thris on a night crist for-soke.
1469 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 97/2 Reformatione for mane sworne athis.
1511 in J. Bain & C. Rogers Glasgow Protocol Reg. (1875) 430 Master William Broun is ane fals manesuorne lown.
c1569 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 89 Such maynsworn harlotts as thou art kepes me from it.
a1586 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 257 The dewill said than, ‘Of commoun la All mensworne folk man cum to me.’
c1610 in J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 305 Thou art a mensworn man.
1650 Hobart's Rep. (new ed.) 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.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 59 What other Lass will trow a mansworn Herd.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell iii. iv. 293 Save these, no priest or peer of them but lives His servant pledged; their hands, tongues, counsels, hearts, His or not theirs, and all they mansworn men.
1875 W. Alexander Sketches Life among Ain Folk 174 He described poor Sandy publicly, and very audibly, as a ‘man-sworn scoon'rel’.
1944 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 46 [N. Carolina.] Man-sworn, breaking one's oath, swearing falsely.
B. n.
1. A perjurer; a person who swears an oath falsely. Also: perjurers collectively. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > perjury > perjurer
manswareOE
false swearerc1380
mansworna1400
forswearer1413
perjurera1500
perjured1526
perjurea1540
post-knight1576
knight of the post1580
perjurator1689
mounter1781
stag1823
straw-shoe1826
subornee1890
perjuress1898
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23112 Murthereres and monsuorn [a1400 Gött. mansuorn, a1400 Coll. Phys. mansworn] als.
1838 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches (1866) 70 They meddle wi' nane but the guilty, the murderer, the mansworn.
2. Perjury. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > perjury
forswornnessc1000
manathOE
false swearingc1200
misswarec1225
forswearing1340
perjurea1393
perjurya1393
manswearingc1400
manswornc1400
perjurementc1450
misswearing1496
perjuration1570
pejeration1650
hard swearing1731
rapping1743
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 182 For mon-sworne and men-sclaȝt..unþonk may mon have.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 257 [He] walde..accus him of the crime of manesuorne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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