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oath
(encz) | oath,klení n: numira@i.cz |
oath
(encz) | oath,kletba n: numira@i.cz |
oath
(encz) | oath,nadávka n: numira@i.cz |
oath
(encz) | oath,přísaha n: Ritchie |
oath
(encz) | oath,zaklení n: [zast.] Ritchie |
Oath
(gcide) | Oath \Oath\ ([=o]th), n.; pl. Oaths ([=o][th]z). [OE. othe,
oth, ath, AS. [=a][eth]; akin to D. eed, OS. [=e][eth], G.
eid, Icel. ei[eth]r, Sw. ed, Dan. eed, Goth. ai[thorn]s; cf.
OIr. oeth.]
1. A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent
appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. "I have
an oath in heaven" --Shak.
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An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those
[inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.
--Bacon.
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2. A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or
one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the
blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
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3. (Law) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a
superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party
making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the
statement be false.
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4. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine
Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or
as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of
profane swearing. "A terrible oath" --Shak.
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oath
(wn) | oath
n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
"expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word,
expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss]
2: a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of
law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution
for perjury [syn: oath, swearing]
3: a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness,
regarding your future acts or behavior; "they took an oath of
allegiance" |
oath
(foldoc) | OATH
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oath
(devil) | OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the
conscience by a penalty for perjury.
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OATH
(bouvier) | OATH. A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or
officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully
required to tell the truth, takes God to witness that what he says is true.
It is a religious act by which the party invokes God not only to witness the
truth and sincerity of his promise, but also to avenge his imposture or
violated faith, or in other words to punish his perjury if he shall be
guilty of it. 10 Toull. n. 343 a 348; Puff. book, 4, c. 2, s. 4; Grot. book
2, c. 13, s. 1; Ruth Inst. book 1, ch. 14, s. 1; 1 Stark. Ev. 80; Merl.
Repert. Convention; Dalloz, Dict. Serment: Dur. n. 592, 593; 3 Bouv. Inst.
n. 3180.
2. It is proper to distinguish two things in oaths; 1. The invocation
by which the God of truth, who knows all things, is taken to witness. 2. The
imprecation by which he is asked as a just and all-powerful being, to punish
perjury.
3. The commencement of an oath is made by the party taking hold of the
book, after being required by the officer to do so, and ends generally with
the words,"so help you God," and kissing the book, when the form used is
that of swearing on the Evangelists. 9 Car. & P. 137.
4. Oaths are taken in various forms; the most usual is upon the Gospel
by taking the book in the hand; the words commonly used are, "You do swear
that," &c. "so help you God," and then kissing the book. The origin of this
oath may be traced to the Roman law, Nov. 8, tit. 3; Nov. 74, cap. 5; Nov.
124, cap. 1; and the kissing the book is said to be an imitation of the
priest's kissing the ritual as a sign of reverence, before he reads it to
the people. Rees, Cycl. h.v.
5. Another form is by the witness or party promising holding up his
right hand while the officer repeats to him,"You do swear by Almighty God,
the searcher of hearts, that," &c., "And this as you shall answer to God at
the great day."
6. In another form of attestation commonly called an affirmation,
(q.v.) the officer repeats, "You do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare
and affirm, that," &c.
7. The oath, however, may be varied in any other form, in order to
conform to the religious opinions of the person who takes it. 16 Pick. 154,
156, 157; 6 Mass. 262; 2 Gallis. 346; Ry. & Mo. N. P. Cas. 77; 2 Hawks, 458.
8. Oaths may conveniently be divided into promissory, assertory,
judicial and extra judicial.
9. Among promissory oaths may be classed all those taken by public
officers on entering into office, to support the constitution of the United
States, and to perform the duties of the office.
10. Custom-house oaths and others required by law, not in judicial
proceedings, nor from officers entering into office, may be classed among
the assertory oaths, when the party merely asserts the fact to be true.
11. Judicial oaths, or those administered in judicial proceedings.
12. Extra-judicial oaths are those taken without authority of law,
which, though binding in foro conscientiae, do not render the persons who
take them liable to the punishment of perjury, when false.
13. Oaths are also divided into various kinds with reference to the
purpose for which they are applied; as oath of allegiance, oath of calumny,
oath ad litem, decisory oath, oath of supremacy, and the like. As to the
persons authorized to administer oaths, see Gilp. R. 439; 1 Tyler, 347; 1
South. 297; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 555; 2 Blackf. 35.
14. The act of congress of June 1, 1789, 1 Story's L. U. S. p. 1,
regulates the time and manner of administering certain oaths as follows:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the oath or affirmation required by the
sixth article of the constitution of the United States, shall be
administered in the form following, to wit, "I, A B, do solemnly swear or
affirm, (as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the
United States." The said oath or affirmation shall be administered within
three days after the passing of this act, by any one member of the senate,
to the president of the senate, and by him to all the members, and to the
secretary; and by the speaker of the house of representatives, to all the
members who have not taken a similar oath, by virtue of a particular
resolution of the said house, and to the clerk: and in case of the absence
of any member from the service of either house, at the time prescribed for
taking the said oath or affirmation, the same shall be administered to such
member when he shall appear to take his seat.
15.-Sec. 2. That at the first session of congress after every general
election of representatives, the oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be
administered by any one member of the house of representatives to the
speaker; and by him to all the members present, and to the clerk, previous
to entering on any other business; and to the members who shall afterwards
appear, previous to taking their seats. The president of the senate for the
time being, shall also administer the said oath or affirmation to each
senator who shall hereafter be elected, previous to his taking his seat; and
in any future case of a president of the senate, who shall not have taken
the said oath or affirmation, the same shall be administered to him by any
one of the members of the senate.
16.-Sec. 3. That the members of the several state legislatures, at the
next session of the said legislatures respectively, and all executive and
judicial officers of the several states, who have been heretofore chosen or
appointed, or, who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of
August next, and who shall then be in office, shall, within one month
thereafter, take the same oath or affirmation, except where they shall have
taken it before which may be administered by any person authorized by the
law of the state, in which such office shall be holden, to administer oaths.
And the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and
judicial officers of the several states, who shall be chosen or appointed
after the said first day of August, shall, before they proceed to execute
the duties of their respective offices, take the foregoing oath or
affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons, who, by
the law of the state, shall be authorized to administer the oath of office;
and the person or persons so administering the oath hereby required to be
taken, shall cause a record or certificate thereof to be made, in the same
manner as, by the law of the state, he or they shall be directed to record
or certify the oath of office.
17.-Sec. 4. That all officers appointed or hereafter to be appointed,
under the authority of the United States, shall, before they act in their
respective offices, take the same oath or affirmation, which shall be
administered by the person or persons who shall be authorized by law to
administer to such officers their respective oaths of office; and such
officers shall incur the same penalties in case of failure, as shall be
imposed by law in case of failure in taking their respective oaths of
office.
18.-Sec. 5. That the secretary of the senate, and the clerk of the
house of representatives, for the time being, shall, at the time of taking
the oath or affirmation aforesaid, each take an oath or affirmation in the
words following, to wit; "I, A B, secretary of the senate, or clerk of the
house of representatives (as the case may be) of the United States of
America, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will truly and faithfully
discharge the duties of my said office to the best of my knowledge and
abilities."
19. There are several kinds of oaths, some of which are enumerated by
law.
20. Oath of calumny. This term is used in the civil law. It is an oath
which a plaintiff was obliged to take that he was not actuated by a spirit
of chicanery in commencing his action, but that he had bona fide a good
cause of action. Poth. Pand. lib. 5, t. 16 and 17, s. 124. This oath is
somewhat similar to our affidavit of a cause of action. Vide Dunlap's Adm.
Pr. 289, 290.
21. No instance is known in which the oath of calumny has been adopted
in practice in the admiralty courts of the United States; Dunl. Adm. Pr.
290; and by the 102d of the rules of the district court for the southern
district of New York, the oath of calumny shall not be required of any party
in any stage of a cause. Vide Inst. 4, 16, 1; Code, 2, 59, 2; Dig. 10, 2,
44; 1 Ware's R. 427.
22. Decisory oath. By this term in the civil law is understood an oath
which one of the parties defers or refers back to the other, for the
decision of the cause.
23. It may be deferred in any kind of civil contest whatever, in
questions of possession or of claim; in personal actions and in real. The
plaintiff may defer the oath to the defendant, whenever he conceives he has
not sufficient proof of the fact which is the foundation of his claim; and
in like manner, the defendant may defer it to the plaintiff when he has not
sufficient proof of his defence. The person to whom the oath is deferred,
ought either to take it or refer it back, and if he will not do either, the
cause should be decided against him. Poth. on Oblig. P. 4, c. 3, s. 4.
24. The decisory oath has been practically adopted in the district court
of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts, and admiralty
causes have been determined in that court by the oath decisory; but the
cases in which this oath has been adopted, have been where the tender has
been accepted; and no case is known to have occurred there in which the oath
has been refused and tendered back to the adversary. Dunl. Adm. Pr. 290,
291.
25. A judicial oath is a solemn declaration made in some form warranted
by law, before a court of justice or some officer authorized to administer
it, by which the person who takes it promises to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, in relation to his knowledge of the matter
then under examination, and appeals to God for his sincerity.
26. In the civil law, a judicial oath is that which is given in judgment
by one party to another. Dig. 12, 2, 25.
27. Oath in litem, in the civil law, is an oath which was deferred to
the complainant as to the value of the thing in dispute on failure of other
proof, particularly when there was a fraud on the part of the defendant, and
be suppressed proof in his possession. See Greenl. Ev. Sec. 348; Tait on Ev.
280; 1 Vern. 207; 1 Eq. Cas. Ab. 229; 1 Greenl. R. 27; 1 Yeates, R. 34; 12
Vin. Ab. 24. In general the oath of the party cannot, by the common law, be
received to establish his claim, but to this there are exceptions. The oath
in litem is admitted in two classes of cases: 1. Where it has been already
proved, that the party against whom it is offered has been guilty of some
fraud or other tortious or unwarrantable act of intermeddling with the
complainant's goods, and no other evidence can be had of the amount of
damages. As, for example, where a trunk of goods was delivered to a
shipmaster at one port to be carried to another, and, on the passage, he
broke the trunk open and rifled it of its contents; in an action by the
owners of the goods against the shipmaster, the facts above mentioned having
been proved aliunde, the plaintiff was held, a competent witness to testify
as to the contents of the trunk. 1 Greenl. 27; and see 10 Watts, 335; 1
Greenl. Ev. Sec. 348; 1 Yeates, 34; 2 Watts, 220; 1 Gilb. Ev. by Lofft, 244.
2. The oath in litem is also admitted on the ground of public policy, where
it is deemed essential to the purposes of justice. Tait on Ev. 280. But this
oath is admitted only on the ground of necessity. An example may be
mentioned of a case where a statute can receive no execution, unless the
party interested be admitted as a witness. 16 Pet. 203.
28. A promissory oath is an oath taken, by authority of law, by which
the party declares that he will fulfill certain duties therein mentioned, as
the oath which an alien takes on becoming naturalized, that he will support
the constitution of the United States: the oath which a judge takes that he
will perform the duties of his office. The breach of this does not involve
the party in the legal crime or punishment of perjury.
29. A suppletory oath in the civil and ecclesiastical law, is an oath
required by the judge from either party in a cause, upon half proof already
made, which being joined to half proof, supplies the evidence required to
enable the judge to pass upon the subject. Vide Str. 80; 3 Bl. Com. 270.
30. A purgatory oath is one by which one destroys the presumptions which
were against him, for he is then said to purge himself, when he removes the
suspicions which were against him; as, when a man is in contempt for not
attending court as a witness, he may purge himself of the contempt, by
swearing to a fact which is an ample excuse. See Purgation.
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loath
(mass) | loath
- nerád |
administer an oath to
(encz) | administer an oath to,vzít do přísahy koho |
boathouse
(encz) | boathouse,přístřešek pro loď Zdeněk Brož |
goatherd
(encz) | goatherd,pasák koz n: Zdeněk Brož |
hippocratic oath
(encz) | Hippocratic oath, |
loath
(encz) | loath,neochota n: Zdeněk Brožloath,nerad Zdeněk Brož |
loathe
(encz) | loathe,ošklivit si v: Ritchie |
loather
(encz) | loather, |
loathing
(encz) | loathing,averze n: Zdeněk Brožloathing,nechuť Zdeněk Brož |
loathly
(encz) | loathly, |
loathsome
(encz) | loathsome,odporný adj: Zdeněk Brožloathsome,odpuzující adj: Zdeněk Brožloathsome,ohavný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
loathsomely
(encz) | loathsomely,odporně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
loathsomeness
(encz) | loathsomeness,odpornost n: Zdeněk Brož |
lying under oath
(encz) | lying under oath, n: |
oaths
(encz) | oaths,přísahy n: pl. numira@i.cz |
take oath
(encz) | take oath,složit přísahu Zdeněk Brož |
under oath
(encz) | under oath,pod přísahou Zdeněk Brož |
Boathouse
(gcide) | Boathouse \Boat"house`\, n.
A house for sheltering boats.
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Half the latticed boathouse hides. --Wordsworth.
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Book oath
(gcide) | Book \Book\ (b[oo^]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[=o]c; akin to
Goth. b[=o]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[=o]k,
Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[=o]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch;
and fr. AS. b[=o]c, b[=e]ce, beech; because the ancient
Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of
beechen board. Cf. Beech.]
1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material,
blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many
folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or
writing.
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Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed,
the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a
volume of some size, from a pamphlet.
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Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book
is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound
together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music
or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott.
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2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
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A good book is the precious life blood of a master
spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a
life beyond life. --Milton.
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3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as,
the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
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4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are
kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and
expenditures, etc.; -- often used in the plural; as, they
got a subpoena to examine our books.
Syn: ledger, leger, account book, book of account. [1913
Webster + WordNet 1.5]
5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or
whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be
taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of
the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or
more corresponding cards, forming a set.
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6. (Drama) a written version of a play or other dramatic
composition; -- used in preparing for a performance.
Syn: script, playscript.
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7. a set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks
etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he
bought a book of stamps.
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8. a book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records
of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook;
-- used in the phrase
one for the book or
one for the books.
Syn: record, recordbook.
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9. (Sport) the set of facts about an athlete's performance,
such as typical performance or playing habits or methods,
that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in
deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the
book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and
outside.
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10. (Finance) same as book value.
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11. (Stock market) the list of current buy and sell orders
maintained by a stock market specialist.
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12. (Commerce) the purchase orders still outstanding and
unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio.
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Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many
compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book
lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook.
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Book account, an account or register of debt or credit in a
book.
Book debt, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the
creditor in his book of accounts.
Book learning, learning acquired from books, as
distinguished from practical knowledge. "Neither does it
so much require book learning and scholarship, as good
natural sense, to distinguish true and false." --Burnet.
Book louse (Zool.), one of several species of minute,
wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They
belong to the Pseudoneuroptera.
Book moth (Zool.), the name of several species of moths,
the larv[ae] of which eat books.
Book oath, an oath made on The Book, or Bible.
The Book of Books, the Bible.
Book post, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts,
etc., may be transmitted by mail.
Book scorpion (Zool.), one of the false scorpions
(Chelifer cancroides) found among books and papers. It
can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects.
Book stall, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for
retailing books.
Canonical books. See Canonical.
In one's books, in one's favor. "I was so much in his
books, that at his decease he left me his lamp."
--Addison.
To bring to book.
(a) To compel to give an account.
(b) To compare with an admitted authority. "To bring it
manifestly to book is impossible." --M. Arnold.
by the book, according to standard procedures; using the
correct or usual methods.
cook the books, make fallacious entries in or otherwise
manipulate a financial record book for fraudulent
purposes.
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.
To make book (Horse Racing), to conduct a business of
accepting or placing bets from others on horse races.
To make a book (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a
pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that
the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and
loses only on the winning horse or horses.
off the books, not recorded in the official financial
records of a business; -- usually used of payments made in
cash to fraudulently avoid payment of taxes or of
employment benefits.
one for the book, one for the books, something
extraordinary, such as a record-breaking performance or a
remarkable accomplishment.
To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness.
to throw the book at, to impose the maximum fine or penalty
for an offense; -- usually used of judges imposing
penalties for criminal acts.
Without book.
(a) By memory.
(b) Without authority.
to write the book, to be the leading authority in a field;
-- usually used in the past tense; as, he's not just an
average expert, he wrote the book.
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Bribery oath
(gcide) | Bribery \Brib"er*y\, n.; pl. Briberies. [OE. brybery
rascality, OF. briberie. See Bribe, n.]
1. Robbery; extortion. [Obs.]
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2. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of
influencing the official or political action of another by
corrupt inducements.
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Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not
been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]
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Burgess oath
(gcide) | Burgess \Bur"gess\, n. [OE. burgeis, OF. burgeis, fr.
burcfortified town, town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus
fort, city; from the German; cf. MHG. burc, G. burg. See 1st
Borough, and cf. 2d Bourgeois.]
1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who
possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a
borough. --Blackstone.
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Note: "A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a
city." --Burrill.
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2. One who represents a borough in Parliament.
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3. A magistrate of a borough.
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4. An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for
municipal officers.
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Note: Before the Revolution, the representatives in the
popular branch of the legislature of Virginia were
called burgesses; they are now called delegates.
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Burgess oath. See Burgher, 2.
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Corporal oath
(gcide) | Corporal \Cor"po*ral\ (k[^o]r"p[-o]*ral), Corporale
\Cor`po*ra"le\ (-r?"l?), n. [LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See
Corporal,a.]
A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are
consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered;
a communion cloth.
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Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact
that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to
touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated
elements.
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Goatherd
(gcide) | Goatherd \Goat"herd`\, n.
One who tends goats. --Spenser.
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Hippocratic oath
(gcide) | Hippocratic oath \Hippocratic oath\,
An oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his
disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates
for graduation in medicine.
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Note: An English translation of the oath reads:
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Aesculapius, and
Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses,
that according to my ability and my judgement, I will
keep this Oath and this stipulation -- to reckon him
who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my
parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve
his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring
in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach
them this Art, if they wish to learn it, without fee or
stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every
mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the
Art to my own sons, and of my teachers, and to
disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to
the law of medicine, but to none others.
I will follow that system or regimen which, according
to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit
of my patients, and abstain from whatever is
deleterious and mischievous.
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor
suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not
give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and
practice my Art. I will not cut persons labouring under
the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who
are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I
enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick,
and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief
and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of
females or males, of freemen and slaves.
Whatever, in connection with my professional service,
or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the
life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I
will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be
kept secret.
While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it
be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the
Art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I
trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my
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Loath
(gcide) | Loath \Loath\ (l[=o]th), a. [OE. looth, loth, AS. l[=a][eth]
hostile, odious; akin to OS. l[=a][eth], G. leid, Icel.
lei[eth]r, Sw. led, G. leiden to suffer, OHG. l[imac]dan to
suffer, go, cf. AS. l[imac][eth]an to go, Goth. leipan, and
E. lead to guide.]
1. Hateful; odious; disliked. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling;
reluctant; as, loath to part.
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Full loth were him to curse for his tithes.
--Chaucer.
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Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content.
--Shak.
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Loathe
(gcide) | Loathe \Loathe\, v. i.
To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Loathe \Loathe\ (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed
(l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian
to hate. See Loath.]
1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
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Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.
--Cowley.
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2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest.
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The secret which I loathe. --Waller.
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She loathes the vital sir. --Dryden.
Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.
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Loathed
(gcide) | Loathe \Loathe\ (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed
(l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian
to hate. See Loath.]
1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
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Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.
--Cowley.
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2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest.
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The secret which I loathe. --Waller.
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She loathes the vital sir. --Dryden.
Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.
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Loather
(gcide) | Loather \Loath"er\, n.
One who loathes.
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Loathful
(gcide) | Loathful \Loath"ful\, a.
1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes."
--Spenser.
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2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
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Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. --Spenser.
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Loathing
(gcide) | Loathe \Loathe\ (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed
(l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian
to hate. See Loath.]
1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
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Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.
--Cowley.
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2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest.
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The secret which I loathe. --Waller.
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She loathes the vital sir. --Dryden.
Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.
[1913 Webster]Loathing \Loath"ing\, n.
Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence,
or detestation.
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The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races.
--Macaulay.
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Loathingly
(gcide) | Loathingly \Loath"ing*ly\, adv.
With loathing.
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Loathliness
(gcide) | Loathliness \Loath"li*ness\, n.
Loathsomeness. [Obs.]
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Loathly
(gcide) | Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o][th]"l[y^]), a. [AS. l[=a][eth]lic.]
Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o]th"l[y^]), adv.
1. Unwillingly; reluctantly.
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This shows that you from nature loathly stray.
--Donne.
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2. (l[=o][th]"l[y^]) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]
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With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.
--Fairfax.
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Loathness
(gcide) | Loathness \Loath"ness\, n.
Unwillingness; reluctance.
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A general silence and loathness to speak. --Bacon.
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Loathsome
(gcide) | Loathsome \Loath"some\, a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a
loathsome disease.
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The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
--Macaulay.
-- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
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Loathsomely
(gcide) | Loathsome \Loath"some\, a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a
loathsome disease.
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The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
--Macaulay.
-- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
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Loathsomeness
(gcide) | Loathsome \Loath"some\, a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a
loathsome disease.
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The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
--Macaulay.
-- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
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Loathy
(gcide) | Loathy \Loath"y\, a.
Loathsome. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Oath
(gcide) | Oath \Oath\ ([=o]th), n.; pl. Oaths ([=o][th]z). [OE. othe,
oth, ath, AS. [=a][eth]; akin to D. eed, OS. [=e][eth], G.
eid, Icel. ei[eth]r, Sw. ed, Dan. eed, Goth. ai[thorn]s; cf.
OIr. oeth.]
1. A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent
appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. "I have
an oath in heaven" --Shak.
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An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those
[inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.
--Bacon.
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2. A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or
one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the
blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
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3. (Law) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a
superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party
making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the
statement be false.
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4. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine
Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or
as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of
profane swearing. "A terrible oath" --Shak.
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Oath of abjuration
(gcide) | Abjuration \Ab`ju*ra"tion\, n. [L. abjuratio: cf. F.
abjuration.]
1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon
oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an
oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
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2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of
heresy.
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Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the
present royal family to the crown of England, and
expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the
Pretender. --Brande & C.
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Oath supremacy
(gcide) | Supremacy \Su*prem"a*cy\, n. [Cf. F. supr['e]matie. See
Supreme.]
The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of
power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the
supremacy of a king or a parliament.
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The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the
crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men
and causes. --Blackstone.
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Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of
the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or
abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or
temporal affairs. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
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Oathable
(gcide) | Oathable \Oath"a*ble\, a.
Capable of having an oath administered to. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Oathbreaking
(gcide) | Oathbreaking \Oath"break`ing\, n.
The violation of an oath; perjury. --Shak
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Oaths
(gcide) | Oath \Oath\ ([=o]th), n.; pl. Oaths ([=o][th]z). [OE. othe,
oth, ath, AS. [=a][eth]; akin to D. eed, OS. [=e][eth], G.
eid, Icel. ei[eth]r, Sw. ed, Dan. eed, Goth. ai[thorn]s; cf.
OIr. oeth.]
1. A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent
appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. "I have
an oath in heaven" --Shak.
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An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those
[inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.
--Bacon.
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2. A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or
one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the
blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
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3. (Law) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a
superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party
making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the
statement be false.
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4. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine
Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or
as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of
profane swearing. "A terrible oath" --Shak.
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To make oath
(gcide) | make \make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. made (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb.
n. making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS.
mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to
join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. Match an equal.]
1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to
produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in
various specific uses or applications:
(a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain
form; to construct; to fabricate.
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He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after
he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii.
4.
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(b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or
false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
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And Art, with her contending, doth aspire
To excel the natural with made delights.
--Spenser.
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(c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or
agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often
used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the
simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make
complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to
record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
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Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.
--Judg. xvi.
25.
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Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix.
4.
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I will neither plead my age nor sickness in
excuse of the faults which I have made.
--Dryden.
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(d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make
a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
(e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as
profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or
happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an
error; to make a loss; to make money.
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He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck
a second time. --Bacon.
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(f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation;
to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or
amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and
the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over;
as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the
distance in one day.
(h) To put in a desired or desirable condition; to cause
to thrive.
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Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
--Dryden.
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2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb,
or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make
public; to make fast.
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Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex.
ii. 14.
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See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii.
1.
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Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive
pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make
bold; to make free, etc.
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3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to
esteem, suppose, or represent.
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He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make
him. --Baker.
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4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause;
to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and
infinitive.
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Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually
omitted.
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I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv.
10.
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They should be made to rise at their early hour.
--Locke.
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5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or
fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish
the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet
cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
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And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak.
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6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to
constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham
makes a hearty meal.
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The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller.
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7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]
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Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole
brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden.
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8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And
make the Libyan shores." --Dryden.
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They that sail in the middle can make no land of
either side. --Sir T.
Browne.
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To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to
put it in order.
To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it.
To make account. See under Account, n.
To make account of, to esteem; to regard.
To make away.
(a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.]
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If a child were crooked or deformed in body or
mind, they made him away. --Burton.
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(b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.]
--Waller.
To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate.
To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture.
To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack.
To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose.
To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer.
To make the doors, to shut the door. [Obs.]
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement. --Shak.
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To make free with. See under Free, a.
To make good. See under Good.
To make head, to make headway.
To make light of. See under Light, a.
To make little of.
(a) To belittle.
(b) To accomplish easily.
To make love to. See under Love, n.
To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq.
Western U. S.]
To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
To make much of, to treat with much consideration,,
attention, or fondness; to value highly.
To make no bones. See under Bone, n.
To make no difference, to have no weight or influence; to
be a matter of indifference.
To make no doubt, to have no doubt.
To make no matter, to have no weight or importance; to make
no difference.
To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something,
in a prescribed form of law.
To make of.
(a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know
what to make of the news.
(b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to
account. "Makes she no more of me than of a slave."
--Dryden.
To make one's law (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's
self of a charge.
To make out.
(a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out
the meaning of a letter.
(b) to gain sight of; to recognize; to discern; to descry;
as, as they approached the city, he could make out the
tower of the Chrysler Building.
(c) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable
to make out his case.
(d) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make
out the money.
(d) to write out; to write down; -- used especially of a
bank check or bill; as, he made out a check for the
cost of the dinner; the workman made out a bill and
handed it to him.
To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to
alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee.
To make sail. (Naut.)
(a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended.
(b) To set sail.
To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift
to do without it. [Colloq.].
To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or
drift backward.
To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if
surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a
request or suggestion.
To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to
court.
To make sure. See under Sure.
To make up.
(a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the
amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
(b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference
or quarrel.
(c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a
dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
(d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape,
prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into
pills; to make up a story.
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He was all made up of love and charms!
--Addison.
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(e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
(f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make
up accounts.
(g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was
well made up.
To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of
pain or derision.
To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to
resolve.
To make way, or To make one's way.
(a) To make progress; to advance.
(b) To open a passage; to clear the way.
To make words, to multiply words.
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To take oath
(gcide) | Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. Took (t[oo^]k); p. p. Taken
(t[=a]k'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin to
Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain
origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the
hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to
convey. Hence, specifically:
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(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
like.
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This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii.
27.
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Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
--Pope.
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They that come abroad after these showers are
commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon.
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There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
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(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
--Prov. vi.
25.
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Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
that he had no patience. --Wake.
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I know not why, but there was a something in
those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. --Moore.
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(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv.
42.
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The violence of storming is the course which God
is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
sinners. --Hammond.
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(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
car.
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This man always takes time . . . before he
passes his judgments. --I. Watts.
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(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
picture; as, to take a picture of a person.
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Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
--Dryden.
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(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
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The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
forcible motive to a good life, because taken
from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery. --Tillotson.
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(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
dictionary with him.
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He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
--Chaucer.
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(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
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(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
refuse or reject; to admit.
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Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer. --Num. xxxv.
31.
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Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore. --1 Tim. v.
10.
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(b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
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(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
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You take me right. --Bacon.
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Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our
neighbor. --Wake.
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[He] took that for virtue and affection which
was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
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You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
--Tate.
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(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
-- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.
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I take thee at thy word. --Rowe.
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Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold. --Dryden.
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3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
exc. Slang or Dial.]
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To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away."
--Dryden.
To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" --1 Cor. ix. 9.
To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
for; to superintend or oversee.
To take down.
(a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent
yet, that I was not taken down." --Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
(c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
words at the time he utters them.
To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
Fire.
To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left
(Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
as troops, to the right or left.
To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what
doom against yourself you give." --Dryden.
To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways.
To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
To take in.
(a) To inclose; to fence.
(b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
(c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
(e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water.
(f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
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For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in. --Chapman.
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(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some
bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions." --I. Watts.
(h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
To take in hand. See under Hand.
To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
--Ex. xx. 7.
To take issue. See under Issue.
To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
attention.
To take notice of. See under Notice.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner.
To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
the measures of one's own choice.
To take order for. See under Order.
To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
To take orders.
(a) To receive directions or commands.
(b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
Order, n., 10.
To take out.
(a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
(b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
(c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
To take up.
(a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank.
(c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
(e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
(f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the
finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian
religion." --Addison.
(g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
to take up vagabonds.
(h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
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The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
--Bacon.
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(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
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One of his relations took him up roundly.
--L'Estrange.
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(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an
activity).
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Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
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(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. "They take up our old
trade of conquering." --Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon
and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." --Dryden.
(n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
xxvii. 10.
(o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our
bills." --Shak.
(p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
(q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
thread in sewing.
(r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. -- (s) To accept from someone,
as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his
challenge.
To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.
To take upon one's self.
(a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
assert that the fact is capable of proof.
(b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment.
To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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Voluntary oath
(gcide) | Voluntary \Vol"un*ta*ry\, a. [L. voluntarius, fr. voluntas will,
choice, from the root of velle to will, p. pr. volens; akin
to E. will: cf. F. volontaire, Of. also voluntaire. See
Will, v. t., and cf. Benevolent, Volition,
Volunteer.]
1. Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of
choice.
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That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary
action is the true principle of orthodoxy. --N. W.
Taylor.
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2. Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled
by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by
another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous;
acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
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Our voluntary service he requires. --Milton.
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She fell to lust a voluntary prey. --Pope.
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3. Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed;
intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by
lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
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4. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or
regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an
animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in
distinction from involuntary motions, such as the
movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers,
which are the agents in voluntary motion.
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5. Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary
agent.
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God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary,
agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with
himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
--Hooker.
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6. (Law) Free; without compulsion; according to the will,
consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration;
gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
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7. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary
church, in distinction from an established or state
church.
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Voluntary affidavit or Voluntary oath (Law), an affidavit
or oath made in an extrajudicial matter.
Voluntary conveyance (Law), a conveyance without valuable
consideration.
Voluntary escape (Law), the escape of a prisoner by the
express consent of the sheriff.
Voluntary jurisdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See {Contentious
jurisdiction}, under Contentious.
Voluntary waste. (Law) See Waste, n., 4.
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Syn: See Spontaneous.
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boathouse
(wn) | boathouse
n 1: a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats |
goatherd
(wn) | goatherd
n 1: a person who tends a flock of goats [syn: goat herder,
goatherd] |
hippocratic oath
(wn) | Hippocratic oath
n 1: an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics
deriving from Hippocrates |
loath
(wn) | loath
adj 1: unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a
reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake" [syn:
loath, loth, reluctant]
2: (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to
new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such
short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request"
[syn: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(p),
indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)] |
loathe
(wn) | loathe
v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate] |
loather
(wn) | loather
n 1: one who hates or loathes [syn: abominator, loather] |
loathing
(wn) | loathing
n 1: hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence,
abomination, detestation, execration, loathing,
odium] |
loathly
(wn) | loathly
adj 1: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
"revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting,
disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly,
loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling,
revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky] |
loathsome
(wn) | loathsome
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting
smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the
idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a
wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful,
distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent,
repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked,
yucky] |
loathsomeness
(wn) | loathsomeness
n 1: the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions;
"the vileness of his language surprised us" [syn:
loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness,
lousiness, wickedness] |
lying under oath
(wn) | lying under oath
n 1: criminal offense of making false statements under oath
[syn: perjury, bearing false witness, {lying under
oath}] |
fear and loathing
(foldoc) | fear and loathing
(Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of
dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are
totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s,
COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios
(also known as the RS/6000).
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-06)
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fear and loathing
(jargon) | fear and loathing
n.
[from Hunter S. Thompson] A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with
certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged
but ubiquitous — Intel 8086s, or COBOL, or EBCDIC, or any IBM machine
bigger than a workstation. “Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI
machine. Fear and loathing time!”
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OATH
(bouvier) | OATH. A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or
officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully
required to tell the truth, takes God to witness that what he says is true.
It is a religious act by which the party invokes God not only to witness the
truth and sincerity of his promise, but also to avenge his imposture or
violated faith, or in other words to punish his perjury if he shall be
guilty of it. 10 Toull. n. 343 a 348; Puff. book, 4, c. 2, s. 4; Grot. book
2, c. 13, s. 1; Ruth Inst. book 1, ch. 14, s. 1; 1 Stark. Ev. 80; Merl.
Repert. Convention; Dalloz, Dict. Serment: Dur. n. 592, 593; 3 Bouv. Inst.
n. 3180.
2. It is proper to distinguish two things in oaths; 1. The invocation
by which the God of truth, who knows all things, is taken to witness. 2. The
imprecation by which he is asked as a just and all-powerful being, to punish
perjury.
3. The commencement of an oath is made by the party taking hold of the
book, after being required by the officer to do so, and ends generally with
the words,"so help you God," and kissing the book, when the form used is
that of swearing on the Evangelists. 9 Car. & P. 137.
4. Oaths are taken in various forms; the most usual is upon the Gospel
by taking the book in the hand; the words commonly used are, "You do swear
that," &c. "so help you God," and then kissing the book. The origin of this
oath may be traced to the Roman law, Nov. 8, tit. 3; Nov. 74, cap. 5; Nov.
124, cap. 1; and the kissing the book is said to be an imitation of the
priest's kissing the ritual as a sign of reverence, before he reads it to
the people. Rees, Cycl. h.v.
5. Another form is by the witness or party promising holding up his
right hand while the officer repeats to him,"You do swear by Almighty God,
the searcher of hearts, that," &c., "And this as you shall answer to God at
the great day."
6. In another form of attestation commonly called an affirmation,
(q.v.) the officer repeats, "You do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare
and affirm, that," &c.
7. The oath, however, may be varied in any other form, in order to
conform to the religious opinions of the person who takes it. 16 Pick. 154,
156, 157; 6 Mass. 262; 2 Gallis. 346; Ry. & Mo. N. P. Cas. 77; 2 Hawks, 458.
8. Oaths may conveniently be divided into promissory, assertory,
judicial and extra judicial.
9. Among promissory oaths may be classed all those taken by public
officers on entering into office, to support the constitution of the United
States, and to perform the duties of the office.
10. Custom-house oaths and others required by law, not in judicial
proceedings, nor from officers entering into office, may be classed among
the assertory oaths, when the party merely asserts the fact to be true.
11. Judicial oaths, or those administered in judicial proceedings.
12. Extra-judicial oaths are those taken without authority of law,
which, though binding in foro conscientiae, do not render the persons who
take them liable to the punishment of perjury, when false.
13. Oaths are also divided into various kinds with reference to the
purpose for which they are applied; as oath of allegiance, oath of calumny,
oath ad litem, decisory oath, oath of supremacy, and the like. As to the
persons authorized to administer oaths, see Gilp. R. 439; 1 Tyler, 347; 1
South. 297; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 555; 2 Blackf. 35.
14. The act of congress of June 1, 1789, 1 Story's L. U. S. p. 1,
regulates the time and manner of administering certain oaths as follows:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the oath or affirmation required by the
sixth article of the constitution of the United States, shall be
administered in the form following, to wit, "I, A B, do solemnly swear or
affirm, (as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the
United States." The said oath or affirmation shall be administered within
three days after the passing of this act, by any one member of the senate,
to the president of the senate, and by him to all the members, and to the
secretary; and by the speaker of the house of representatives, to all the
members who have not taken a similar oath, by virtue of a particular
resolution of the said house, and to the clerk: and in case of the absence
of any member from the service of either house, at the time prescribed for
taking the said oath or affirmation, the same shall be administered to such
member when he shall appear to take his seat.
15.-Sec. 2. That at the first session of congress after every general
election of representatives, the oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be
administered by any one member of the house of representatives to the
speaker; and by him to all the members present, and to the clerk, previous
to entering on any other business; and to the members who shall afterwards
appear, previous to taking their seats. The president of the senate for the
time being, shall also administer the said oath or affirmation to each
senator who shall hereafter be elected, previous to his taking his seat; and
in any future case of a president of the senate, who shall not have taken
the said oath or affirmation, the same shall be administered to him by any
one of the members of the senate.
16.-Sec. 3. That the members of the several state legislatures, at the
next session of the said legislatures respectively, and all executive and
judicial officers of the several states, who have been heretofore chosen or
appointed, or, who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of
August next, and who shall then be in office, shall, within one month
thereafter, take the same oath or affirmation, except where they shall have
taken it before which may be administered by any person authorized by the
law of the state, in which such office shall be holden, to administer oaths.
And the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and
judicial officers of the several states, who shall be chosen or appointed
after the said first day of August, shall, before they proceed to execute
the duties of their respective offices, take the foregoing oath or
affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons, who, by
the law of the state, shall be authorized to administer the oath of office;
and the person or persons so administering the oath hereby required to be
taken, shall cause a record or certificate thereof to be made, in the same
manner as, by the law of the state, he or they shall be directed to record
or certify the oath of office.
17.-Sec. 4. That all officers appointed or hereafter to be appointed,
under the authority of the United States, shall, before they act in their
respective offices, take the same oath or affirmation, which shall be
administered by the person or persons who shall be authorized by law to
administer to such officers their respective oaths of office; and such
officers shall incur the same penalties in case of failure, as shall be
imposed by law in case of failure in taking their respective oaths of
office.
18.-Sec. 5. That the secretary of the senate, and the clerk of the
house of representatives, for the time being, shall, at the time of taking
the oath or affirmation aforesaid, each take an oath or affirmation in the
words following, to wit; "I, A B, secretary of the senate, or clerk of the
house of representatives (as the case may be) of the United States of
America, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will truly and faithfully
discharge the duties of my said office to the best of my knowledge and
abilities."
19. There are several kinds of oaths, some of which are enumerated by
law.
20. Oath of calumny. This term is used in the civil law. It is an oath
which a plaintiff was obliged to take that he was not actuated by a spirit
of chicanery in commencing his action, but that he had bona fide a good
cause of action. Poth. Pand. lib. 5, t. 16 and 17, s. 124. This oath is
somewhat similar to our affidavit of a cause of action. Vide Dunlap's Adm.
Pr. 289, 290.
21. No instance is known in which the oath of calumny has been adopted
in practice in the admiralty courts of the United States; Dunl. Adm. Pr.
290; and by the 102d of the rules of the district court for the southern
district of New York, the oath of calumny shall not be required of any party
in any stage of a cause. Vide Inst. 4, 16, 1; Code, 2, 59, 2; Dig. 10, 2,
44; 1 Ware's R. 427.
22. Decisory oath. By this term in the civil law is understood an oath
which one of the parties defers or refers back to the other, for the
decision of the cause.
23. It may be deferred in any kind of civil contest whatever, in
questions of possession or of claim; in personal actions and in real. The
plaintiff may defer the oath to the defendant, whenever he conceives he has
not sufficient proof of the fact which is the foundation of his claim; and
in like manner, the defendant may defer it to the plaintiff when he has not
sufficient proof of his defence. The person to whom the oath is deferred,
ought either to take it or refer it back, and if he will not do either, the
cause should be decided against him. Poth. on Oblig. P. 4, c. 3, s. 4.
24. The decisory oath has been practically adopted in the district court
of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts, and admiralty
causes have been determined in that court by the oath decisory; but the
cases in which this oath has been adopted, have been where the tender has
been accepted; and no case is known to have occurred there in which the oath
has been refused and tendered back to the adversary. Dunl. Adm. Pr. 290,
291.
25. A judicial oath is a solemn declaration made in some form warranted
by law, before a court of justice or some officer authorized to administer
it, by which the person who takes it promises to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, in relation to his knowledge of the matter
then under examination, and appeals to God for his sincerity.
26. In the civil law, a judicial oath is that which is given in judgment
by one party to another. Dig. 12, 2, 25.
27. Oath in litem, in the civil law, is an oath which was deferred to
the complainant as to the value of the thing in dispute on failure of other
proof, particularly when there was a fraud on the part of the defendant, and
be suppressed proof in his possession. See Greenl. Ev. Sec. 348; Tait on Ev.
280; 1 Vern. 207; 1 Eq. Cas. Ab. 229; 1 Greenl. R. 27; 1 Yeates, R. 34; 12
Vin. Ab. 24. In general the oath of the party cannot, by the common law, be
received to establish his claim, but to this there are exceptions. The oath
in litem is admitted in two classes of cases: 1. Where it has been already
proved, that the party against whom it is offered has been guilty of some
fraud or other tortious or unwarrantable act of intermeddling with the
complainant's goods, and no other evidence can be had of the amount of
damages. As, for example, where a trunk of goods was delivered to a
shipmaster at one port to be carried to another, and, on the passage, he
broke the trunk open and rifled it of its contents; in an action by the
owners of the goods against the shipmaster, the facts above mentioned having
been proved aliunde, the plaintiff was held, a competent witness to testify
as to the contents of the trunk. 1 Greenl. 27; and see 10 Watts, 335; 1
Greenl. Ev. Sec. 348; 1 Yeates, 34; 2 Watts, 220; 1 Gilb. Ev. by Lofft, 244.
2. The oath in litem is also admitted on the ground of public policy, where
it is deemed essential to the purposes of justice. Tait on Ev. 280. But this
oath is admitted only on the ground of necessity. An example may be
mentioned of a case where a statute can receive no execution, unless the
party interested be admitted as a witness. 16 Pet. 203.
28. A promissory oath is an oath taken, by authority of law, by which
the party declares that he will fulfill certain duties therein mentioned, as
the oath which an alien takes on becoming naturalized, that he will support
the constitution of the United States: the oath which a judge takes that he
will perform the duties of his office. The breach of this does not involve
the party in the legal crime or punishment of perjury.
29. A suppletory oath in the civil and ecclesiastical law, is an oath
required by the judge from either party in a cause, upon half proof already
made, which being joined to half proof, supplies the evidence required to
enable the judge to pass upon the subject. Vide Str. 80; 3 Bl. Com. 270.
30. A purgatory oath is one by which one destroys the presumptions which
were against him, for he is then said to purge himself, when he removes the
suspicions which were against him; as, when a man is in contempt for not
attending court as a witness, he may purge himself of the contempt, by
swearing to a fact which is an ample excuse. See Purgation.
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