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swearer|ˈswɛərə(r)|
Forms: 4 sweryar, sueryar, swerier; 4 suerere, 4–5 swerere, 4–6 swerer, 5 swerare, 5–6 swerar, 6 Sc. sweirar, 6– swearer.
[f. swear v. + -er1.]
One who swears.
1. One who takes an oath; spec. one who takes or has taken an oath of allegiance; = juror 4; † also, a juryman; = juror 1. false swearer, one who swears falsely, or who breaks his oath; a perjurer. See also non-swearer.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 242 A meyntenour of wrongis at louedaies, a fals suerere, a manquellere. c1390–1400R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8833 (MS. B.) He hem out drou, And false sueryars [v.r. sweryars, sweriers] of assyses, & dude hem ssame ynou. c1440Promp. Parv. 482/2 Swerare, jurator, juratrix. Ibid. 483/1 Swerare, þat ofte ys forswore, labro. 1441in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 297 The swerere, if he be pleyntif, shal losse his action. 15..Adam Bel 275 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 149 The justice with a quest of swerers That had juged Cloudesle there hanged to be. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 41 Fal. Good maid, then. Qui. Ile be sworne, as my mother was the first houre I was borne. Fal. I doe beleeue the swearer. 1635Jackson Creed viii. xviii. § 5 It must consist of swearing men, or of swearers; a new title given by some Roman regular Catholiques,..unto such Seculars of their owne profession, as will take the oath of allegiance. 1720Swift (title) The Swearer's-Bank: or, Parliamentary Security for Establishing a New Bank in Ireland. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. vi, Consider..how Bailly, the great Tennis-Court swearer, again swears. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 447 The swearers..avoided coming to close quarters with the nonjurors on this point. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. iii, The watchful eyes of those forgers and false swearers.
2. One who uses profane oaths; a person addicted to profane language. Also with objective of.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋518 Euery greet swerere, nat compelled lawefully to swere. c1450Mirk's Festial 229 Scho..ys a claterer, a ianguler, a flyter, a curser, a swerer, and a skold. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 172 heading, Blasphemers and swearers of the name of God, and of his Saintes. 1564Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 298 Anent the sweraris of abhominabill aithis. 1597in Maitl. Club Misc. I. 89 The sweiraris and banneris. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch x, Take not his name, who made thy mouth, in vain;..the cheap swearer through his open sluce Lets his soul runne for nought. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 103 Hee was a most damnable Swearer, and inventer of new Oaths. 1711Steele Spect. No. 8. ⁋3, I know the Lanes and Allies that are inhabited by common Swearers. 1800Gilpin Serm. II. xxvii. (R.) The swearer continues to swear: tell him of his wickedness he allows it is great, but he continues to swear on.
3. One who administers an oath to another (const. of). Also swearer-in (see swear v. 21).
1597E. S. Discov. Knts. Poste B 2 b, I graunt he is a broker,..but he was first a bailer and a swearer. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke K 2 b, Provided they could be the Swearers of the Prince to do all due Allegiance to the Church. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. xxiii. §2. (1699) 246 An Act is to be extracted upon their said absence, and is to be delivered to the Swearer, or his Clerk. 1827in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 86, I was obliged to hire a man as a ‘swearer-in’. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xii, I am not a swearer in of people, man. |