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Perjurit, -juret(t, -jurd, ppl. a. Also: -jured, -juired. [Late ME. and e.m.E. perjured (1453).] Of persons: Guilty of perjury; forsworn; false to an oath or vow.(1) attrib. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 157.
Acquytit … be ane perjurit jury a1585 Maitl. Q. lxxxiii. 2.
Of thé periurd and ladye fals a1578 Pitsc. I. 140/15.
As ane periurit and mensuorne pepill 1581 Burne Disput. 185 b.
Periurit apostatis 1584 Melvill 176.
Perjurit sacrilegius deboushit persones c1600 Montg. Suppl. v. 38.
Fas tratour vngraitt & periurd 1611-57 Mure Sonnets (Ser. 1) xii. 1.
Puir perjurd palliard 1662 St. A. Baxter Bks. 129.
Ane fals perjurit kneaw 1681 Cloud of Witnesses 90.
These ungodly perjured bloody … traitours and tyrants(2) predic. 1561 Acts Sederunt ii. 3.
Quhairthrow he is perjurett and mainsworn and has incurrit the pains contenit in the act of parliament 1593–4 St. A. Kirk S. 772.
The sessioun hes found thame perjuret 1639 Johnston Diary Ia. 47.
Will ye be perjured against God? 1652 Dumfries Kirk S. 7 Oct.
That the foresaid whole kirk was perjured 1658 Rothesay B. Rec. 272.
That quher Robert Beithe callit him perjuired and man sworne in face of judgement 1698 Penninghame Par. Rec. I. 17.
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