单词 | swearer |
释义 | swearern. One who swears. 1. One who takes an oath; spec. one who takes or has taken an oath of allegiance; = juror n. 4; †also, a juryman; = juror n. 1 false swearer, one who swears falsely, or who breaks his oath; a perjurer. See also non-swearer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > one who promises or vows swearerc1380 beheterc1384 behighterc1475 promiserc1475 vower1546 votary1548 avower?1555 bearer1579 obligee1590 jurora1593 vow-fellow1598 vow-maker1598 stipulator1611 votist1613 plightera1616 voter1621 obligatora1625 obliger1633 promissor1644 promisor1665 sponsor1677 pledger1768 sanctioner1846 pledgee1924 oath-keepera1973 the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > specific > one who swearerc1380 jurant1585 jurora1593 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 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 242 A meyntenour of wrongis at louedaies, a fals suerere, a manquellere. c1390–1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8833 (MS. B.) He hem out drou, And false sueryars [v.r. sweryars, sweriers] of assyses, & dude hem ssame ynou. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/2 Swerare, jurator, juratrix. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 483/1 Swerare, þat ofte ys forswore, labro. 1441–2 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 297 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The swerere, if he be pleyntif, shal losse his action. 15.. Adam Bel 275 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 149 The justice with a quest of swerers That had juged Cloudesle there hanged to be. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 39 Fal. Good maid then. Qui. Ile be sworne, As my mother was the first houre I was borne. Fal. I doe beleeue the swearer . View more context for this quotation 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 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. 1720 J. Swift (title) The Swearer's-Bank: or, Parliamentary Security for Establishing a New Bank in Ireland. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. vi. 50 Consider..how Bailly, the great Tennis-Court swearer, again swears. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 447 The swearers..avoided coming to close quarters with the nonjurors on this point. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. iii. 48 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses curser1303 ribalda1325 warier1382 swearerc1386 reviler1517 reproacher?1532 scogginist1593 damme1618 foulmoutha1640 God damn me1640 damner1647 juror1653 comminator1682 muck-spouta1825 guttermouth1965 potty mouth1969 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋518 Euery greet swerere, nat compelled lawefully to swere. c1450 Mirk's Festial 229 Scho..ys a claterer, a ianguler, a flyter, a curser, a swerer, and a skold. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxxiiv Blasphemers and swerers of the name of god, and of his Sayntis. 1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 298 Anent the sweraris of abhominabill aithis. 1597 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 89 The sweiraris and banneris. 1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple x Take not his name, who made thy mouth, in vain;..the cheap swearer through his open sluce Lets his soul runne for nought. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 103 Hee was a most damnable Swearer, and inventer of new Oaths. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 8. ⁋3 I know the Lanes and Allies that are inhabited by common Swearers. 1800 W. Gilpin 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 to swear in at swear v. Phrasal verbs 2). ΚΠ 1597 E. S. Discouerie Knights of Poste sig. B2v I graunt he is a broker,..but he was first a bailer and a swearer. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. K2v Provided they could be the Swearers of the Prince to do all due Allegiance to the Church. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 491 An act is to be extracted upon their said absence, and is to be delivered to the swearer, or his Clerk. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 86 I was obliged to hire a man as a ‘swearer-in’. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 112 I am not a swearer in of people, man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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