单词 | perjurer |
释义 | perjurern. A person who commits or has committed perjury. 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 a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 9 (MED) What pyne and penance longith to periurerys. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Parjure, a forsworne man, a Periurer. 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 55 The perjurer's a devil let loose. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 97 All of them proved, Drinkers, Whoorers, By Preachers, Forgers, and Perjurers. 1715 J. Harris Brit. Hero 19 Dispensations for Church-Robbers, Thieves, Incendiaries, Plunderers, Ravishers, Perjurers, &c. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Perjurer, one that swears falsely. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxiii. 328 The perjurers were allowed to slip out of court without even a reprimand. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. 49 He was a perjurer who on a false plea had raised the nation against Richard. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 156/2 Every opposition witness is a master of evasion and probably a perjurer. 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xiv. 100 Their retraction makes them recidivists and perjurers—relapsi—a terrible charge in those days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500 |
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