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abjure, v.|æbˈdʒ(j)ʊə(r)|
Also 6 abjowre.
[a. Fr. abjure-r (in Palsgr.), ad. L. abjūrā-re to deny on oath, f. ab away + jūrā-re to swear.]
1. To renounce on oath; to retract, recant, or abnegate (a position or opinion formerly held).
a. trans.
1501Will of John Bawde in Bury Wills 83 (1850) Alle tho wyllys abieured and revokyd byfor thys day mad. 1528More Dial. Heres. i. Wks. 1557, 108/2 He was forced to forswere and abiure certaine heresyes. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 51 But this rough Magicke I heere abjure. 1774Burke Sp. on Amer. Tax. Wks. II. 379 The principle which lord Hillsborough had abjured. 1829Southey Young Dragon iii. Wks. VI. 274 My pagan faith I put away, Abjure it and abhor it. 1871R. W. Dale Ten Commandts. vi. 155 I must die rather than abjure a single article of my creed.
b. absol.
1528More Dial. Heres. iv. Wks. 1557, 282/1 Nor neuer yet found I ani. j. but he would once abiure, though he neuer intended to kepe his othe. 1531Dial. on Laws of Eng. ii. xxix. 115 (1638) If a man be convict of heresy and abjure, hee hath forfeit no goods. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 1773 Wylt thu here abiure or no? I wyll neyther abiure, nor yet recant Gods glorye.
†2. causally. To cause to forswear or recant (heresies, etc.). Obs.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. vii. 159 b/2 (1520) Reynold Pecoke bysshop of Chestre was founde an herytyke, and the thyrde daye of Decembre was abjured at Lambeth. 1494Fabyan vii. ccxliv. 286 Almaricus, a studyent of Parys, helde sertayne opynyons of heresy, of y⊇ which whan he was abiured, he tooke suche thought yt he dyed shortly after. 1528More Dial. Heres. iii. Wks. 1557, 216/2 Considering that they might, as in conclusion they did, abiure him otherwise. 1536–42Thynne Animadv. App. 1 And then all such must be burned, or ellis ab-Iuryd.
3. To disclaim solemnly or formally; to repudiate or reject upon oath (a claim or claimant).
1597Daniel Civ. War iv. xxix, The foule report Of that assasinate: which utterly He doth abjure. 1665Manley tr. Grotius's Low-Countrey-Warrs 183 To abjure all Authority over the Netherlands. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 480 To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure. 1799T. Jefferson Writings IV. 301 (1859) I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power. 1851Macaulay Essays, Milton I. 15 While they abjured the innocent badges of popery. 1863Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 128 The oath prescribed for abjuring the Pretender and his descendants. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 381 The assembly abjured the whole house of æthelred. 1877Mozley Univ. Serm. i. 3 [The Christianity of the Gospel] abjures force, it throws itself upon moral influence for its propagation and maintenance.
b. absol.
1671Milton P.R. i. 473 Say and unsay, feign, flatter, and abjure.
4. to abjure the realm, town, commonwealth, etc.: to swear to abandon it for ever.
1530Palsgr. 415 I abjowre, I forsake myne errours, as an heretyke dothe, or forswere the kynges landes; Je abjure. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 497 If he take Sanctuarie, and do abiure the Realme. 1609Sir J. Skene Reg. Mag. 155 Gif any man hes abjured the towne (sworne to passe forth of the burgh) and is returned againe. 1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 274 He who kills Deere, and cannot finde security to put in for the payment of the Fine imposed, is compelled to abjure the Common-wealth. 1677Hobbes Dial. on Com. Laws Eng. 183 When a Clerk heretofore was convicted of Felony, he might have saved his life by abjuring the Realm; that is, by departing the Realm within a certain time appointed, and taking an Oath never to return. 1768Blackstone Comm. IV. 399 Even while abjurations were in force, such a criminal was not allowed to take sanctuary and abjure the realm.
b. absol.
1726Ayliffe Parergon 14 Whoever was not capable of this Sanctuary, could not have the Benefit of Abjuration: and therefore, he that committed Sacrilege could not abjure.
†5. causally. To cause one to forswear the realm, to banish. Obs.
1603Drayton Barons Warres i. xv, T' abjure those false Lords from the troubled Land. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. 90 He was onely abjured the Realm for ever. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. xxvi. 269 His life was pardoned; notwithstanding he was abjured the realm. |