请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 mis-sworn
释义

mis-swornadj.

Forms: 1500s myssworone, 1800s mis-sworn; Scottish pre-1700 missworne, pre-1700 miswaron, 1700s–1800s missworn.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, sworn adj.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + sworn adj. Compare earlier missware n. and misswearing n.
Obsolete.
1. Chiefly Scottish. Forsworn, perjured.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [adjective] > perjury > falsely sworn
mis-sworn1506
perjured1567
forsworna1586
1506 tr. Kalender of Shepherdes sig. Evi Myssworone [1503 mensworn]..By wordes [etc.].
1567 Dundee Charters (1880) 151 Gif any person..reveil..the secretts..he heirs in the counsall..to be dischargit of said place in the counsall as ane missworne person.
1671 Forbes Baron Court Bk. in Publ. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1919) 2nd Ser. 19 284 That shee callit the said Georg Michell perjurit and miswaron carll.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 100 How cud she think that grace or thrift cud be. Wi' ane, that she does sae missworn see?
?a1800 Broomfield Hill v, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1884) I. ii. 395 But if I stay from Broomfield Hills, I'll be a maid mis~sworn.
1838 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders V. 54 To prevent him from making himself a mis-sworn man.
2. That has been invoked wrongly or vainly. rare.
ΚΠ
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxxvi. 4 A God's mis~sworn sanctity, deadly to men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
adj.1506
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/27 22:15:39