单词 | perjured |
释义 | perjuredadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of a person: that has committed or is guilty of perjury; that has deliberately broken an oath, promise, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [adjective] > perjury > that has sworn falsely forswornOE mansworna1400 perjurea1450 perjuriousa1460 perjurousa1460 perjured1495 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 25 §6 To call in the supposed perjured persones afore the seid Chaunceller. 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. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxii. 98 Let not a Traytors periur'd Sonne extrude vs from our right. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 628 Forgerers and periured persons. 1650 (title) A brief apology for all non subscribers, and looking glasse for all apostate, perjured prescribers, and subscribers of the new engagement. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 105. ⁋3 I hope you won't be such a perjured Wretch as to forswear your self. 1796 W. Scott tr. G. A. Büger William & Helen ix, in Chase 22 A perjur'd lover's fleeting heart No tears recal again. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby lii. 520 At the sight of their perjured relative, Mrs. Kenwigs turned faint and pale. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 128 Thea Elvsted as an abandoned, perjured strumpet who deserted the man she had sworn before her God to love. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 170/1 A whole host of perjured informers were at hand to swear his life away. 1984 G. McCaughrean Canterbury Tales 109 If you can't tell us a story to prove your case, we'll call you a perjured witness! 2. Of a thing: characterized by perjury; false, deceitful.In quot. 1598 alluding to the former practice of attaching to a convicted perjurer a paper announcing his or her guilt; cf. paper n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [adjective] > perjury perjured1550 perjurous1600 perjurious1602 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. X.iii As touchynge this counsayle, we cannot but calle it false and periured [L. perfidum]. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. li To abuse me with so many forgeries, and periured protestations. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 123 O would the King, Berowne, and Longauill, Were Louers too, ill to example ill, Would from my forehead wipe a periurde note: For none offende, where all alike do dote. View more context for this quotation a1635 R. Corbet Elegie on Dr. Ravis in Poems (1647) 18 Their hired Epitaphs, and perjur'd stone, Which oft belies the soule when she is gone. 1649 W. Prynne Briefe Apol. for all Non-subscribers 11 With what face or conscience he can henceforth lift up his perjured hands to God in Prayer. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. i. 36 May all the Vengeance, that was ever pour'd On perjur'd Heads, o'erwhelm me. 1743 J. Kelly tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Adventures Telemachus I. xi. 253 May all the most dreadful Calamities of War..fall upon the perjured Head of the execrable ambitious Man. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xxvii. 165 By her who brooks his perjured scorn, The ill-requited Maid of Lorn. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) viii. 171 The only occasion when he [sc. Charles Stuart] showed a manly spirit..had been preceded by an act of perjured hypocrisy. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 170/1 The character of those witnesses was well known and no jury would listen to their perjured tales. 1986 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 77 709 The courts should trust the ability of the prosecution to impeach perjured testimony. 3. Of an oath, promise, etc.: falsely sworn. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [adjective] > perjury > falsely sworn mis-sworn1506 perjured1567 forsworna1586 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxxii. f. 394 Thou wentest about to abuse me by false and periured othe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Yv The recompence of their periured oth. 1688 A. Behn Lycidus 3 Ten thousand broken Vows and perjured Oaths. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 36 I my Nisa's perjur'd Faith deplore; Witness ye Pow'rs, by whom she falsly swore! 1705 Johnson's Hist. Seven Champions Christendom (new ed.) II. xiv The pure and chast Goddess Diana..will revenge my perjured Promise. 1776 tr. P. Corneille Melite v. iii. 110 I ne'er will accept for pledge a perjured oath. 1823 A. T. de Vere Duke of Mercia v. 191 I was wrought to this..by all The violated treaties, perjured oaths, Whereby our earlier vengeance had been stay'd. 1864 M. J. Holmes Darkness & Daylight xxix. 300 You must not stain your soul with a perjured vow. 1935 C. L. Warr in K. Garvin Great Tudors 287 A barbarous society which recognised calumny, the forged paper, the perjured oath, and assassination as the legitimate methods of diplomacy. 1990 Legal Times (Nexis) 18 June (After Hours section) 70 The communal conscience cannot be clear if it is based upon the perjured oaths of those in whom society has placed its trust. B. n. A perjured person; (with the and plural agreement) perjured people as a class. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > perjury > perjurer manswareOE false swearerc1380 mansworna1400 forswearer1413 perjurera1500 perjured1526 perjurea1540 post-knight1576 knight of the post1580 perjurator1689 mounter1781 stag1823 straw-shoe1826 subornee1890 perjuress1898 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 10 The lawe is..geven..to lyars and to periured. 1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 How many villains were in Spain,..how many perjurds in France. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 54 Thou periur'd, and Thou simular man of vertue. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 191 No man's wit, or strength can protect a man against Gods vengeance on the perjured. 1714 A. Philips tr. Thousand & One Days II. 54 Those Spirits that have the Charge of Chastising the Perjured, will not fail to punish her. 1792 J. Trapp tr. A. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 235 Must he not punish the perjured, since he receives their oaths? 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. ii. 20 I began to recall what I had heard of dead men..revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xv. 226 ‘Iss!’ said Demi the perjured. 1947 W. H. D. Rouse tr. Xenophon March up Country (1958) ii. 53 The perjured are justly put to death. 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