perjured

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He whom his adversaries describe as a perjured Prelatist, is desirous that his predecessors should be held moderate in their power, and just in their execution of its privileges, when truly, the unimpassioned peruser of the annals of those times shall deem them sanguinary, violent, and tyrannical.

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  1. Guilty of perjury; that has sworn falsely, or is false to vows or protestations: as, a perjured villain. For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I, To swear against the truth so foul a lie! Shak., Sonnets, clii.
  2. 2 Deliberately or wilfully broken or falsified.

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