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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Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner..
Miswear :: Miswear (v. t.) To wear ill.
Mainswear :: Mainswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.
Swearing :: Swearer (n.) A profane person; one who uses profane language.
Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To deny upon oath.
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..
Abjure :: Abjure (v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever..
Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office..
Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend..
Unswear :: Unswear (v. t.) To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure..
Curse :: Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
Perjure :: Perjure (v. t.) 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..
Swough :: Sworn () p. p. of Swear.
Forswearing :: Forswearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forswea.
Ban :: Ban (v. i.) To curse; to swear.
Dejerate :: Dejerate (v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) False swearing.
Conjurator :: Conjurator (n.) One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.
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..
Unswear :: Unswear (v. i.) To recall an oath.
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