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2 mag 2014 · to take/swear an oath of allegiance; Before giving evidence, witnesses in court have to take the oath (= promise to tell the truth). The next US president will take the oath of office in January. All members had to swear a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of the organization. You are bound by oath to tell the truth.
2 giorni fa · 6 meanings: 1. a solemn pronouncement to affirm the truth of a statement or to pledge a person to some course of action, often.... Click for more definitions.
In the first place, the Oath was admitted to be genuinely Hippocratic by Erotian. As to internal evidence, the Oath, besides binding all who take it to certain moral rules of practice, makes them also promise to act in a certain manner towards co-practitioners. The taker of the oath--. (1) Will treat the children of his teacher as though they ...
Britannica Dictionary definition of OATH. [count] 1. : a formal and serious promise to tell the truth or to do something. They were required to take/swear an oath of loyalty. [=promise formally to remain loyal] an oath to defend the nation. an oath of office [=an official promise by a person who has been elected to a public office to fulfill ...
Oath, sacred or solemn voluntary promise usually involving the penalty of divine retribution for intentional falsity. The most frequent contemporary use of the oath occurs when a witness in an authorized legal inquiry states an intention to give all pertinent information and to tell only the truth in relating it.
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. This oath is somewhat similar to our affidavit of a cause of action.
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