Perjure

['pɜːdʒə] or ['pɝdʒɚ]

Definition

(verb.) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury.

Checker: McDonald--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.

(v. t.) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.

(n.) A perjured person.

Typist: Murray

Definition

v.t. to swear falsely (followed by a reciprocal pronoun): to cause to swear falsely.—v.i. to be false to one's oath.—n. (Shak.) a perjured person.—adj. Per′jured having sworn falsely: being sworn falsely as an oath.—n. Per′jurer.—adjs. Perju′rious Per′jurous guilty of perjury.—n. Per′jury false swearing: the breaking of an oath: (law) the crime committed by one who when giving evidence on oath as a witness in a court of justice gives evidence which he knows to be false.

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