transitive. To assert or maintain fictitiously; to allege, make out, pretend. Const. †with simple object or complement (rare), with object and infin…

quasi-transitive. To say or allege falsely. Obsolete.

To put forward as an assertion or statement; to allege, assert, contend, claim, declare; esp. to allege… transitive. With clause as object.

transitive. To assert or allege falsely, or with a lie. Obsolete.

transitive. To cite falsely as supporting one's contention.

transitive. To allege, pretend, or profess, esp. falsely.

transitive. With clause as object: to assert falsely; to say with perjury. Obsolete. rare.

To maintain or put forward (a lie or untruth) as being true. Obsolete.

transitive. To make false or incorrect. To assert falsely. Obsolete.

transitive. To allege incorrectly. Cf. lay, v.1 26c. Obsolete.

transitive. To affirm wrongly or falsely. Also intransitive.