OATH ( page 254 ).
Questions.
1. What is an oath? an affidavit? How does the affidavit differ from the oath? 2. What is an adjuration? 3. What is a vow? How does it differ from an oath? 4. Of what words is oath a popular synonym? 5. In what do anathema, curse, execration, and imprecation agree? 6. What is an anathema? 7. Is a curse just or unjust? 8. What does execration express? imprecation?
Examples.
Better is it that thou shouldest not ——, than that thou shouldest —— and not pay.
Then how can any man be said
To break an —— he never made?