After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. |
That was as impossible as to make them abjure by proclamation, their religion. |
To embrace a purely formal approach to analogy and to abjure formalization entirely are two extremes in a spectrum of strategies. |
If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission. |
He alone of all men must for an uncertain time abjure this field of endeavour, however great his interest. |
The severity of the law was modified by a felon's right to abjure the realm if he succeeded in reaching the sanctuary of a church. |