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verb
Knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury.
is a specific kind of: lie.
entailment: depone, depose, swear.
derivation: bearing false witness, lying under oath, perjury | false witness, perjurer.
Dutch: meineed plegen
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