The corpus record — Latin

abjuro

abjuro · v. a

to deny any thing on oath

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Where it lives

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What it meant

ab-jūro — Lewis & Short

ab-jūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (abjurassit for abjuraverit,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 9),

I to deny any thing on oath: rem alicui. ne quis mihi in jure abjurassit, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 9: pecuniam, id. Rud. prol. 14: creditum, Sall. C. 25, 4.—Absol., Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 10; cf.: mihi abjurare certius est quam dependere, * Cic. Att. 1, 8, 3.—Poet.: abjuratae rapinae, abjured, denied on oath, Verg. A. 8, 263.

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Where it came from

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