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abjure

verb
/əbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)//æbˈd͡ʒʊ(ə)ɹ/US

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”).

  1. derived from *h₂yew-✻ — “(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”
  2. derived from abiūrāre
  3. derived from abjurer — “to reject or renounce (something) on oath”
  4. derived from abiurer
  5. derived from abjurer
  6. inherited from abjuren — “to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”

Definitions

  1. To solemnly reject (someone or something)

    To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

    • 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: […]

  2. To renounce (something) upon oath

    To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.

    • 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: […]

  3. To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Especially in abjure the realm

      Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.

    2. To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever

      To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.

      • The ſtrong effect of theyr conceiued ire, / Vrging the vveake King vvith a violent hand, / T' abiure thoſe falſe Lords from the troubled land.

    3. To solemnly reject

      To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.

      • 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?

    4. To recant or retract a heresy on oath.

      • Nor neuer yet found I ani. j. [any one] but he would once abiure, though he neuer intended to kepe his othe.

    5. To swear an oath to leave a place forever.

      • 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: […]

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Derived

abjuratory, abjured, abjurement, abjurer, abjure the realm, abjuring

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA