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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Wlatsome :: Wlatsome (a.) Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
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..
Law :: Law (n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court..
Suborn :: Suborn (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken..
Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend..
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..
Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To deny upon oath.
Loathly :: Loathly (adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.
Dejerate :: Dejerate (v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Depose :: Depose (v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Depose :: Depose (v. t.) To put under oath.
Backward :: Backward (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an 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..
Satiate :: Satiate (v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
Burgher :: Burgher (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess the true religion professed within the realm), the opposite party being called antiburghers..
Enomoty :: Enomoty (n.) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath..
Subornation :: Subornation (n.) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
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..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..
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