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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Law The deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony under oath.
  2. n. The breach of an oath or promise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The violation of any oath, vow, or solemn affirmation; specifically, in law, the wilful utterance of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
  2. n. Synonyms See perjure.

Wiktionary

  1. n. law The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. False swearing.
  2. n. (Law) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. criminal offense of making false statements under oath

Etymologies

  1. Ultimately from Latin perjurare ("swear falsely"), from Latin per- +‎ jurare. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English periurie, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin periūrium, from periūrāre, to perjure; see perjure. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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