ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. actively. That has abjured or renounced heresy, etc.; recanted. Obs.
1533. More, Apology, xxxv. Wks. 1557, 899/1. Bayfielde the monke and apostata, that was an abiured, and after periured and relapsed heretyke, [was] well and woorthelye burned in Smithfielde.
2. passively. Sworn against; repudiated on oath.
c. 1746. Hervey, Meditations (1818), 203. If an abjured pretender had cut his way to our throne.
