oath-taker

It reserved the oath-taker's honor, and that could mean anything.

In those days the oath-taker believed, sincerely and literally, that the gods struck down oath-breakers, or cast them into the pit of eternal night, or whatever.

Typically the oath took place upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic, often contained within an altar, thus binding the oath-taker before God.

I was tning to work out how many pints of spirit he would have consumed by the end of the evening, given one swallow per oath-taker, when I sawjamie approach the head of the line.

The Oath includes elements pertaining to the monarch's role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England as well as the oath-taker's separate roles as monarch of his or her other realms.

Konrad Baumgarten or Conrad von Baumgarten is a hero of the Swiss liberation legend and, according to Friedrich Schiller's drama William Tell, oath-taker at the famous Rütli-oath of 1 August 1291 forming the Old Swiss Confederacy.

The bill requires that persons who administer an oath to those who lack the required identification must inform the oath-taker of the qualifications for voting and the penalty that may be imposed on persons who vote or attempt to vote knowing that they are not eligible to do so (proposed section 143.1).

He instructed the nobility to take a new oath of loyalty to him as king: "I, [the oath-taker], promise that in relation to my lord King Charles and his sons I am faithful and I shall be so for all of my life without treachery or evil intentions."