Definition of swear

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Swear (v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.

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Curse :: Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
Miswear :: Miswear (v. t.) To wear ill.
Nonjuring :: Nonjuring (a.) Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors..
Unswear :: Unswear (v. i.) To recall an oath.
Ban :: Ban (v. i.) To curse; to swear.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge..
Manswear :: Manswear (v. i.) To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.
Forswearer :: Forswearer (n.) One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
Oath :: Oath (n.) A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing..
Abjuration :: Abjuration (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return..
Dejeration :: Dejeration (n.) The act of swearing solemnly.
Dejerate :: Dejerate (v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Forswore :: Forswore () imp. of Forswear.
Profane :: Profane (a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue..
Sworn :: Swore () imp. of Swear.
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) False swearing.
Compurgator :: Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner..
Misswear :: Misswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.
Unswear :: Unswear (v. t.) To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure..
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