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To full beyond matural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.

esire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. Hakewill. But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.

An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

etirement; seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.

that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.

guage. Addison. These promises were often made with great solemnity and confirmed with an oath. J. Edwards.

Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.

ite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive. Love will not be spurred to what it loathes. Shak.

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Sir W. O. Russell.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

royed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes. Blackstone. Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.

imp. of Swear. [Obs. or Poetic] Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson.

appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc. Ye shall swear by my name falsely. Lev. xix. 12. I swear by all the Roman gods. Shak.

p. p. of Swear. Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.

An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.