perjure

Meanings

Verb

• To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
• To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt.
• To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.

Noun

• A perjured person.

Related

Similar words

• forswear, manswear

Origin

• From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō