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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An oath or declaration under oath.

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Examples

  • I told him I believed he would: And, in a letter to the Doctor, told him what great satisfaction that honourable person, and many more, had reaped by reading his book “De Juramento;” and asked him

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

  • He did, for about a year's time, continue to read his matchless Lectures, which were first de Juramento, a point very difficult, and at that time very dangerous to be handled as it ought to be.

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

  • [Sidenote: "Cases of Conscience"] [Sidenote: The King's errors] [Sidenote: Translation of "De Juramento"]

    Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

  • And it ought to be observed, that Dr. Sanderson's Lectures _de Juramento_ were so approved and valued by the King, that in this time of his imprisonment and solitude he translated them into exact English; desiring Dr. Juxon, [18] -- then Bishop of London, -- Dr. Hammond, and Sir Thomas

    Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

  • Lectures, which were first _de Juramento_, a point very difficult, and at that time very dangerous to be handled as it ought to be.

    Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

  • Discoursing with an honourable person [1] (whose piety I value more than his nobility and learning, though both be great) about a case of conscience concerning oath and vows, their nature and obligation; in which, for some particular reasons, he then desired more fully to be informed; I commended to him Dr. Sanderson's book "De Juramento;" which having read, with great satisfaction, he asked me, -- "If I thought the Doctor could be induced to write Cases of Conscience, if he might have an honorary pension allowed him to furnish him with books for that purpose?"

    Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

  • PROBATUM fuit Test [= m] coram d [= n] o ca [= n] t Archie [= p] o apud London decimo die mensis Junij Anno d [= n] o mille [= m] o quingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo Juramento Thome Atkynson E [= x] in hmoi testamento noiat Ac Approbatu et insumatu et comissa fuit admotraco om [= n] bonoru

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

  • 1812 - Juramento da Constituição espanhola em Cádis.

    Nothingandall 2009

  • [Sidenote: “Cases of Conscience "] [Sidenote: The King's errors] [Sidenote: Translation of “De Juramento"]

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

  • And it ought to be observed, that Dr. Sanderson's Lectures de Juramento were so approved and valued by the King, that in this time of his imprisonment and solitude he translated them into exact English; desiring Dr. Juxon, [18] ” then Bishop of London, ” Dr. Hammond, and Sir Thomas Herbert, [19] who then attended him, ” to compare them with the original.

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

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