abjures

Verb

abjure (third-person singular simple present abjures, present participle abjuring, simple past and past participle abjured)

1. (formal, transitive) To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
   • to abjure errors

   Synonyms:

   renounce, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forsay, forswear, repudiate, wash one's hands of

2. (formal, historical, transitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   disavow, renounce, backpedal, disown, eat one's words, recall, recant, retract, revoke, swallow

3. (formal, historical, transitive) To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
   • [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.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Bark-shire”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC...
4. (formal, historical, transitive) Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
   • 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 But at this day all statutes for abjuration are repealed.a. 1680 (date written), Thomas Hobbes, “A Dialogue between a Philosopher & a Student of the Common Laws of England”, in William Molesworth, editor, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury...
5. (formal, historical, obsolete, rare, transitive) 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.1603, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Barrons Warres. The First Booke.”, in The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] Ling, →OCLC...
6. (formal, intransitive) 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?1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 26, lines 470–473

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