abjure

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

   “to abjure errors”

2. fiil To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.

   “to abjure allegiance to a prince”

3. fiil To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).

   “[T]hey vvere betrayed, and then many of them to the number of ſix or ſeven ſcore vvere abjured, and three or four of them burnt. Novv although vve knevv not hovv to call theſe Martyrs vvho ſo ſuffered, their Names no doubt are vvritten in the Book of Life.”

4. fiil Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.

   “When a clerk heretofore was convicted of felony, he might have saved his life by abjuring the realm; that is, by departing the realm within a certain time appointed, and taking an oath never to return. But at this day all statutes for abjuration are repealed.”

5. fiil To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.

   “The ſtrong effect of theyr conceiued ire, / Vrging the vveake King vvith a violent hand, / T' abiure thoſe falſe Lords from the troubled land.”

6. fiil To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.

   “Eaſily canſt thou find one miſerable, / And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth; / If it may ſtand him more in ſtead to lye, / Say and unſay, feign, flatter, or abjure?”

7. fiil To recant or retract a heresy on oath.

   “Nor neuer yet found I ani. j. [any one] but he would once abiure, though he neuer intended to kepe his othe.”

8. fiil To swear an oath to leave a place forever.

   “I Abiowre⸝ I forſake myne errours as an heretyke dothe⸝ or forſwere the kynges landes⸝ ie abiure, prime coniugationis.”