| 单词 | affidavit man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaffidavit man affidavit man n. colloquial (freq. depreciative) (now rare) a person hired to give false witness, esp. in a court of law; a person who commits perjury for payment; cf. knight of the post n., straw-shoe n. at straw n.1 Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1618 D. Digges Declar. Ambassador to Emperor of Russia (single sheet) The foule exactions, extorsions, and base vsages towards prisoners, by..seruants, and Affidavit men. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 248 The Prisoner in his Defence..charged the Prosecutor with being a common Affidavit-Man. 1888 J. R. Irelan Republic XII. xxii. 422 How does he cover this transaction up? I will tell you. He keeps an affidavit man! whom he pays an advance per month of thirty or forty dollars in addition to his regular pay, and he swears that all the blankets were issued to the Indians. 1915 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 24 Dec. The grafters, after the case went against them, decided to take the law into their own hands, so they hired an affidavit man named Judas to perjure himself. < as lemmas |
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