perjure
pur jer
- v knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury
- Is it possible that the two of them had intimate contact, yet Clinton still did not perjure himself? In the intricate world of the law, a world of hairsplitting distinctions where .
- The way Carey tells it, Kelly's murderous violence is aimed as much at his mother Ellen's succession of suitors as at the police, who impound the family's animals and perjure .
- She it was who ordered this and that peasant or laborer to perjure himself before the courts in order to secure the release of a captured member.