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Definition of Perjured
1. a. Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.
Definition of Perjured
1. Verb. (past of perjure) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perjured
1. perjure [v] - See also: perjure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perjured
Literary usage of Perjured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"LCJ It is a strange inference you make : Do you think that every witness is
perjured, because the jury do not find according to what he ..."
2. Ethical Obligations of the Lawyer by Gleason Leonard Archer (1910)
"NOT TO ATTEMPT TO PROCURE perjured TESTIMONY. Every lawyer is under a duty not
to directly nor indirectly endeavor to procure perjured testimony. ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"But if their lordships did not give credit to this prudish conduct on the part
of this ship captain, they must conclude him perjured. ..."
4. The Art of Cross-examination: With the Cross-examinations of Important by Francis Lewis Wellman (1904)
"... CHAPTER IV CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE perjured WITNESS IN the preceding chapters
it was attempted to offer a few suggestions, gathered from experience, ..."
5. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1901)
""THE FAITHLESS, perjured SCOTSMAN SOLD HIS MONARCH FOR A BIT OF GOLD." AND now
our readers must leave the " Standard " to glide smoothly on, ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... unless it is proved by other proofs that he was insane before. And every
coroner and juror is flatly perjured who does not bring ..."
7. The Republic of Republics: Or, American Federal Liberty by Bernard Janin Sage (1881)
"perjured Usurpation and Treason. — It seems certain, from the foregoing authorities,
... That the exercise of such power must be perjured usurpation; 3d. ..."
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