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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compurgator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compurgator
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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