Definition of oath

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Oath (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false..

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Agrise :: Agrise (v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
Suggestion :: Suggestion (n.) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party..
Unswear :: Unswear (v. i.) To recall an oath.
Asitia :: Asitia (n.) Want of appetite; loathing of food.
Loathly :: Loathly (a.) Loathsome.
Round :: Round (a.) Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath..
Glut :: Glut (n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market..
Affidavit :: Affidavit (n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate..
Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
Loathness :: Loathness (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance.
Laidly :: Laidly (a.) Ugly; loathsome.
Oathable :: Oathable (a.) Capable of having an oath administered to.
Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..
Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath..
Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations..
Testify :: Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal..
Nausea :: Nausea (n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing..
Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise..
Loathing :: Loathing (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation..
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations..
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