单词 | abjured |
释义 | abjuredadj. Now rare. 1. That has abjured or renounced heresy, a religion, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1533 T. More Apol. xxxv, in Wks. (1557) 899/1 Bayfielde the monke and apostata, that was an abiured, and after periured and relapsed heretyke, [was] well and woorthelye burned in Smithfielde. 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques 182. Abiured slaues that had renounced their faith. 1603 A. Willet Retection 207 That text is not applied against their law in punishing relapsed and abiured persons with death. 1667 Naphtali sig. B7v The Present King of late, by Parliament, Council and Commissioner, did interdict all the Lawfull Assemblies of the Church, which did not derive their Power from the Abjured and Perjured Prelats. 1777 Act Declar. & Testimony Whole Covenanted Reformation (ed. 3) 92 An anti-christian parliament, where abjured bishops sit constituent members. 1859 Littell's Living Age 9 Apr. 86/2 During the last few months of his Chancellorship, four of the abjured Protestants, Bilney, Bayfield, Bainham, and Tewkesbury, relapse into heresy. 1961 Yale French Stud. 28 99 A Church only too happy to welcome an abjured Protestant into the fold. 2001 K. Carleton Bishops & Reform in Eng. Church 1520–1559 vii. 143 Into the latter category came Joan Bocher, alias Joan of Kent, who was burned in 1549 as an abjured Lollard who had relapsed. 2. Chiefly Law. Sworn to leave a place permanently. Cf. abjuration n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > bound by promise troth-plighta1300 sworna1325 plightedc1390 assured1426 jurate1433 abjured1552 sure1567 trothed1567 obliged1600 testeda1616 ingudged1650 betrothed1651 sacramental1785 undertaking1786 oath-bound1795 committed1821 word-bound1836 tied1876 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum sig. Z.ijv/1 Place of refuge or succoure, which may be called the priuileged place, where abiured persons abide. 1641 W. Sheppard Offices, Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tything Men 113 So much of all Statutes as doe concern abjured persons and Sanctuaries made before 35. Eliz. are repealed. 1787 J. Reeves Hist. Eng. Law (ed. 2) IV. xxix. 314 The banishment of so many abjured persons began now to be thought not the wisest policy. 1859 A. Amos Observ. on Statutes Reformation Parl. xi. 176 If the abjured fugitive came out of such chosen sanctuary, he was to suffer death as an abjured person returning to the kingdom. 1924 I. D. Thornley in R. W. Seton-Watson Tudor Stud. viii. 201 One of the first Acts of the Reformation Parliament ensured the effect of abjuration by ordering the abjured person to be branded on the thumb. 3. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 437 The notes of their abiured names, and perfidiat paines. c1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 203 If an abjured pretender had cut his way to our throne. 1802 A. Campbell Journey from Edinb. II. 214 It was required..to pray by name for George and his family, while James the son of the abjured king lived in exile. 1830 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 518 One of the grievances charged upon the abjured sovereign was the constant negative which he put upon all laws passed in the colonies for the abolition of the slave-trade. b. Of a thing: (formally) renounced or repudiated; rejected. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [adjective] > characterized by renunciation > renounced renounced1555 abjured1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 108 When the flat contrary of his abjured impositions, is infallibly knowne to be of undoubted trueth. 1780 J. Brown Lett. Toleration (1803) II. 216 After much sinful veering towards the abjured abominations of Popery, they..lamented their perfidy to God. 1848 A. Steinmetz Hist. Jesuits III. 41 [The Jesuits] defended, against every bias towards the abjured and abandoned system, that body of doctrine which had been set up in the Council of Trent. 1998 P. Bradley Slavery, Propaganda, & Amer. Revol. (1999) 156 Even the word ‘abolitionist’ came to represent an abjured, radical fringe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1533 |
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