In a Danish law of 1537 it is said that the perjurer shall lose the two offending fingers so as to appease the wrath of God (Stemann, Den danske Retshistorie indtil Christian V.
The fulfilment of the self-imprecation was made dependent upon the free will of the deity appealed to, and was regarded as the punishment for an offence committed by the perjurer against the god himself.
What could be fairer or more fit than to punish perjury by cutting off the two fingers which the perjurer had held up in taking the violated oath?
Parnassus with his mother's father 394 Autolycus, whom Mercury had endowed with the gift of being the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world, for he was very fond of him.
Return to France, and endeavor to conciliate those who are cursing you as a perjurer and renegade!
Who are they who dare call me a perjurer and renegade?
Moses in the passage quoted did not state to whom one man had to denounce another's perjury: wherefore it must be understood that the matter had to be denounced "to those who would do the perjurer good rather than harm.
Since, however, that which is formal in anything is of greater importance than that which is material, he that swears to a falsehood thinking it true is not so much of a perjurer as he that swears to the truth thinking it false.
Objection 1: It would seem that he who demands an oath of a perjurer commits a sin.
Therefore one may be a perjurerwhile swearing to the truth.
Further, a perjurer calls upon God to witness to a falsehood, and thus seems to assert that God is false.
But we have the record, unbroken and irrefragable, which shall not only right his victim, but shall bring yonder perjurer to justice.
So the perjurer won again, and Sir Philip was suspended during the king's pleasure as the outcome of his Rainbow coffee-house speech.
I am a free man, and have come here only to hurl contempt in her face, to brand her before you all as a perjurer and a traitress, whom I never will pardon, but will curse with my latest breath!
Yes, said she, I acknowledge that I am a perjurer and a traitor.
If I subscribe, with a solemn oath, what stands here, I must either renounce the great object of my life, or become a perjurer and a nidding to all the world.
He imagined that any measure giving them Emancipation would be against the terms of his coronation oath, and openly said that he would never make himself a perjurer by giving his royal assent to Pitt's bill.
Standing here, on the threshold of death, I proclaim Adrian De la Rey a liar and perjurer--a perjurer who has taken the name of the great God to witness his falsehood.
But at the same moment the devil flew down the precipices, seized the perjurer by his neck, and dragged him straight off to hell, leaving behind him as he rushed through the air a dreadful smell of sulphur and a train of fire.
But Johann's soul was scarcely out of his body, when God's wrath appeared and fearfully punished the perjurer and fratricide.
Why," asked Tostig, excitedly, "should a perjurerbe allowed to reign in peace?
But when their enthusiasm evaporated, the thought of fighting for national existence under the auspices of a man branded as "perjurer and liar" troubled every conscience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perjurer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: liar; perjurer; prevaricator; storyteller
