abjure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).
Inflected forms:
form: abjures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abjuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: abjurest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: abjuredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: abjures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abjureth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: abjure
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: abjuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abjured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: to abjure errors
Her[mia]. […] But I beſeech your Grace, that I may knovve / The vvorſt that may befall mee in this caſe, / If I refuſe to vved Demetrius. / The[seus]. Either to dy the death, or to abiure, / For euer, the ſociety of men.
She diſappeerd, and left me dark, I vvak'd / To find her, or for ever to deplore / Her loſs, and other pleaſures all abjure: […]
[B]oth Charles [I] himself and his creature [William] Laud, while they abjured the innocent badges of Popery, retained all its worst vices, […]
Only as thou abjurest self, / Lovest thy Brother more than pelf, / And drivest out the impish elf, // Sectarian pride, from all thy heart, / Canst thou have place, or lot, or part / Within the Heaven-created mart […]
[S]he is an ardent golfer. Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St. Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.
gloss: To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
transitive
examples: to abjure allegiance to a prince
[T]he man ye write of, was of many thinges borne wrõge [wrong] in hande, & therin ſo ſore handeled that he was forced to for ſwere and abiure certaine hereſyes, & openly to penance therfore, where he neuer held any ſuch.
Graues at my command, / Haue vvak'd their ſleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth / By my ſo potent Art. But this rough Magicke / I heere abiure: […]
[T]he conceſſion vvas far ſhort of ſatisfying the principle vvhich Lord Hillſborough had abjured; or even the pretence on vvhich the repeal of the other taxes vvas announced: […]
VVouldeſt thou devote thyſelf to me? Adore then the terreſtrial influences; and abjure Mahomet.
[W]hen, guided by learned rabbis, invincible generals, and sublime and enlightened heathens, thou in evil hour abjuredst the gospel, in outward act if not in heart, and ungratefully dismissed thy faithful adviser, thou didst seal the fate of thy country and thyself.
I wrote to him, saying, 'all these things, Lord, he hath abjured before me; admit him, therefore, if it pleaseth thee.' But he hath written back, 'unless he abjureth all this in writing, and in his own hand, I will not admit him.'
gloss: To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
transitive
examples: [T]hey vvere betrayed, and then many of them to the number of ſix or ſeven ſcore vvere abjured, and three or four of them burnt. Novv although vve knevv not hovv to call theſe Martyrs vvho ſo ſuffered, their Names no doubt are vvritten in the Book of Life.
gloss: Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
transitive
examples: When a clerk heretofore was convicted of felony, he might have saved his life by abjuring the realm; that is, by departing the realm within a certain time appointed, and taking an oath never to return. But at this day all statutes for abjuration are repealed.
[A]s a feme-covert recuſant may be impriſoned, ſo all others muſt, vvithin three months after conviction, either ſubmit and renounce their errors, or, if required ſo to do by four juſtices, muſt abjure and renounce the realm: and if they do not depart, or if they return vvithout the king's licence, they ſhall be guilty of felony, and ſuffer death as felons.
gloss: To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
obsolete
rare
transitive
examples: The ſtrong effect of theyr conceiued ire, / Vrging the vveake King vvith a violent hand, / T' abiure thoſe falſe Lords from the troubled land.
About this time a ſubject brought in a Bull of Excommunication againſt another ſubject of this Realm, and publiſhed it to the Lord Treaſurer of England, and this vvas by the ancient Common-Law of England adjudged Treason againſt the King, his Crovvn and dignity, for the vvhich, the offender ſhould have been dravvn and hanged, but at the great inſtance of the chancelour and Treaſurer, he vvas onely abjured the Realm for ever.
In the Time of King Edward III. one ſhould have been hanged, dravvn and quartered, for publiſhing an Excommunication, directed from the Biſhop of Rome againſt one of the King's Subjects. But at the Entreaty of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treaſurer, his Life vvas pardoned; notvvithſtanding he vvas abjured the Realm.
gloss: To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: Eaſily canſt thou find one miſerable, / And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth; / If it may ſtand him more in ſtead to lye, / Say and unſay, feign, flatter, or abjure?
gloss: To recant or retract a heresy on oath.
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
intransitive
examples: Nor neuer yet found I ani. j. [any one] but he would once abiure, though he neuer intended to kepe his othe.
And going toward the Justice Gate, many said to him, "Recant! Recant! Don't insist on dying," and he said, "Christ died for us." […] At the Field of Justice, one said to him he should do as a certain monk, his superior, had done, abjuring: but Michael answered that he would not abjure, and I saw many in the crowd agree and urge Michael to be strong: so I and many others realized those were his followers, and we moved away from them.
gloss: To swear an oath to leave a place forever.
pos: verb
tags: formal
historical
intransitive
examples: I Abiowre⸝ I forſake myne errours as an heretyke dothe⸝ or forſwere the kynges landes⸝ ie abiure, prime coniugationis.
Well to bee ſhort, what for the cauſes before recited, as alſo for that they had once alreadie abiured, and yet (as they terme it) fell againe into relapſe, they were both (as you haue heard) in the end burned together in Smithfield: […]
One abjureth and is after taken in England, and demanded what he could ſay, why Execution ſhould not be awarded, he ſtands mute, he ſhall be hanged, and not put to penance or preſſed; becauſe he was attainted of the Felony before by his Confeſſion: For he cannot have the Benefit of the Sanctuary to abjure, unleſs he confeſs the Felony which is entered on Record by the Coroner; […]
Related words: abjuration
adjure
Derived words: abjuratory
abjured
abjurement
abjurer
abjure the realm
abjuring
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отхвъ́рлям
roman: othvǎ́rljam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отка́звам се
roman: otkázvam se
lang: Catalan
word: abjurar
lang: Dutch
word: (aan) verzaken
lang: Dutch
word: afzweren
lang: Dutch
word: herroepen
lang: Finnish
word: hylätä
lang: Finnish
word: kieltää
lang: French
word: abjurer
lang: German
word: abschwören
lang: Italian
word: abiurare
lang: Polish
word: wyrzec się
lang: Polish
word: wyrzekać się
lang: Portuguese
word: abjurar
lang: Russian
word: отка́зываться
roman: otkázyvatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: отказа́ться
roman: otkazátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: торже́ственно отрека́ться
roman: toržéstvenno otrekátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: abjurar
lang: Ukrainian
word: відмовитися назавжди
roman: vidmovytysja nazavždy