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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PER'JURED, pp. Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Perjure Per"jure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perjured; p. pr. & vb. n. Perjuring.] [F. parjurer, L. perjurare, perjerare; per through, over + jurare to swear. See Jury.] 1. To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself. Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal. --Shak. 2. To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations. [Obs.] And with a virgin innocence did pray For me, that perjured her. --J. Fletcher. Syn: To Perjure, Forswear. Usage: These words have been used interchangeably; but there is a tendency to restrict perjure to that species of forswearing which constitutes the crime of perjury at law, namely, the willful violation of an oath administered by a magistrate or according to law.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Perjured Per"jured, a. Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn. --Shak. ``Perjured persons.'' --1 Tim. i. 10. ``Their perjured oath.'' --Spenser.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

In a court of law, perjured evidence or perjured testimony is a false statement of events. ...information that was based on perjured testimony. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Forsworn, perfidious, false, treacherous, traitorous, lost to shame.

Moby Thesaurus

artful, calculating, crafty, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, falsehearted, forsworn, insincere, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, scheming, truthless, uncandid, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, unveracious