different between perjurious vs perjurous

English

Latin perjuriosus

perjurious (comparative more perjurious, superlative most perjurious)

perjurous (comparative more perjurous, superlative most perjurous)

Alternative form of perjurious
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]
  something even in the official's self-possessed and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his specifications strangely reminded him of a bandsman, a perjurous witness in a capital case before a courtmartial ashore of which when a lieutenant, he, Captain Vere, had been a member.
The witness made perjurous statements under oath.
The judgment will be set aside based on the client's perjurous answer to the judge's direct questions.

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