jurament Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈdʒʊərəmənt)
[ad. L. (post-cl.) jūrāment-um, f. jūrāre to swear: see -ment.]
An oath. to do juraments (Univ. slang): see quot. 1877.
| 1575 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 441 The parties have plighted their juramentes and put herunto their signes and seales. 1594 Zepheria xxxi, Ioue..smiles at louers iurament. 1708 Hearne Collect. 10 July (O.H.S.) II. 118 Mr. Covert of Hart Hall..having been deny'd three times [for his Degree of B.A.] the reasons were given into the Vice-Chanc. —1. That he had not done Juraments. 1877 Chr. Wordsworth Scholæ Academ. 217 When a student was once senior Soph, he merely went into the Schools every term, and proposed one Syllogism juramenti gratiâ, and was said to be ‘doing juraments’. |