perjuriouslyadv.
/pəːˈdʒʊərɪəsli/, U.S. /pərˈdʒʊriəsli/ Law in later use.
In a perjurious manner; with perjury.
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perjuriously?c1550
perjuredly1553
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. iv. 164 Penda, whome hee, breaking perjuriuslie his vow, afterwarde murthered.
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good iii. iii. 30 One of you two is periuriously forsworne.
1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 77 If..he should perjuriously depose at the Kings Bench.
1714 Groans of Jamaica 29 Informing falsly, and even perjuriously, against some of those, to whose Friendship he was most obliged.
1794 C. Stuart Hist. all Real & Threatened Invasions of Eng. 57 William sent ambassadors to demand the crown, which he accused him [sc. Harold] of having perfidiously and perjuriously usurped.
1866 J. J. Craven Prison Life of Jefferson Davis 250 Test-oaths..restrain those honorable men who require no fetters, while men of a different class will either take them perjuriously or with a ‘mental reservation’.
1884 ‘Judge Wiglittle’ 10 Years Police Judge xxiv. 207 [To] enforce the law and punish those who perjuriously stand in the way of the enforcement.
1957 S. Hook Common Sense & Fifth Amendment iii. 77 The latter perjuriously swore that they were not members.
1999 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Dec. 2 There was no need for depositions to ascertain behavioral nuances that may (or may not) have been answered perjuriously.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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