单词 | adjurator |
释义 | † adjuratorn. Obsolete. A person who swears or witnesses an oath. ΚΠ 1729 J. Hutchinson Moses's Sine Principio 100 It is not only Confederates among themselves, the Makers of the Covenant, the Swearers, those who had bound themselves to perform the Conditions, the Witnesses of the Oath, the Adjurators, but now the Performers of that Oath. 1799 Llewellin III. vi. 159 Montalton made one of these [sc. the pillagers] adjurators, and in pursuance of the spirit of their last communion, England having shared largely in the dishonest seizure, he confederated with Edward's ruthless enemies. 1871 Southern Mag. (Baltimore) Dec. 730 The concluding words are supposed to be a protest of the adjurator that he would never reveal the secret of Osiris. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1729 |
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