PERJURE


Meaning of PERJURE in English

■ verb ( ~ oneself ) Law commit perjury.

↘[as adjective ~d ] (of evidence) involving wilfully told untruths.

Derivatives

~r noun

Origin

ME (as ~d in the sense 'guilty of perjury'): from OFr. parjurer , from L. perjurare 'swear falsely'.

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