MAT Vocabulary Terms:
abjure
pronounced: ab-joor
Abjure means to renounce or reject; to officially disclaim. Galileo abjured his writings that held that the Earth and other planets revolved around the sun during his inquisition hearing in 1633.
(Sources: Master the Miller Analogies Test, Arco, 2006; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/abjure; http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Galileo.html; http://www.exposingchristianity.com/Inquisition.html)
Compiled by Patricia Ladensack
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