Obs. exc. Hist. [ad. L. (post-cl.) jūrāment-um, f. jūrāre to swear: see -MENT.] An oath. To do juraments (Univ. slang): see quot. 1877.
1575. Galway Arch., 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 441. The parties have plighted their juramentes and put herunto their signes and seales.
1594. Zepheria, xxxi. Ioue … smiles at louers iurament.
1708. Hearne, Collect., 10 July (O.H.S.), II. 118. Mr. Covert of Hart Hall … having been deny’d three times [for his Degree of B.A.] the reasons were given into the Vice-Chanc. —1. That he had not done Juraments.
1877. Chr. Wordsworth, Scholæ Academ., 217. When a student was once senior Soph, he merely went into the Schools every term, and proposed one Syllogism juramenti gratiâ, and was said to be ‘doing juraments.’
