perjurer

perjure +‎ -er

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpəɹdʒəɹəɹ/

perjurer (plural perjurers)

1. someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath
   • 1607, Henry Ainsworth, The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes:

     Here are none exempted or excluded, be they never so prophane or wretched, no Atheist, adulterer, thief, or murderer, no lyer, perjurer, Witch or conjurer, &c· al are one fellowship, one body, one Church.

   • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:

     Come in, you false witness, you perjurer, you suborner of evidence, come in!

• false witness
• knight of the post