Definition of Compurgator

1. n. One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

Definition of Compurgator

1. Noun. (obsolete legal) A person who swears an oath that another person is innocent ¹

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Definition of Compurgator

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgator

compulsorily
compulsoriness
compulsory
compulsory process
compulsory purchase
compunct
compunction
compunctionless
compunctions
compunctious
compunctiously
compunctive
compunctuous
compurgation
compurgations
compurgator (current term)
compurgatorial
compurgators
computabilities
computability
computability logic
computability theory
computable
computable function
computably
computation
computation history
computation tree logic
computational
computational biology

Literary usage of Compurgator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"... which he finds in the very Senate itself, where, beyond even the Roman example, a Senator has not hesitated to appear as his own compurgator. LXX. ..."

2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1906)
"... when a burgess and a foreigner were the hostile parties, for the party proving by witnesses to produce a witness or compurgator whose relation to the ..."

3. Scintillae Juris by Charles John Darling Darling (1903)
"For my own part, I think that the compurgator of old is to-day rather to be discovered in the ... If the compurgator always was drawn from the vicinage, ..."

4. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1906)
"... when a burgess and a foreigner were the hostile parties, for the party proving by witnesses to produce a witness or compurgator whose relation to the ..."

5. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"As an oath simply, he could be a compurgator in all cases where the value in litigation did not exceed a heifer, or where he only counted to that extent. ..."

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