Swear: alternatives and connections

To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

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To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

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To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Taken.

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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Exactly representing; exact.

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Outer.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, f…

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One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.

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One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.

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One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.

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One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.

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to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

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To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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A work horse, or working ox.

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To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

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A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

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To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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To lay, as a stake; to wager.

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To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.

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To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to h…

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Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

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To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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