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noun
- A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
- 1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics, Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: <http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/>. Book 1, Part 3.
- : for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the of the gods as being by water,
- the affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an
- A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contractthe name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths
- a curse
- (legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
Translations: - Dutch: eed(nl)m
- French: serment(fr)m
- German: Fluch(de)m
- Italian: bestemmia (ref, 3)
- Spanish: juramento(es)m
verb
- (archaic) To pledge.
- Shouting out. (as in 'oathing obsenities')
Etymology: Old English Äí
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