• (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
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Com'pur·ga`tor noun [ Late Latin ] One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See
Purgation ; also
Wager of law , under
Wager . « All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my
compurgators .
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Formerly, when a person was accused of a crime or sued in a civil action, he might purge himself upon oath of the accusation made against him whenever the proof was not the most clear and positive; and if upon his oath he declared himself innocent, he was absolved.
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a person who vouches for the innocence and truthful testimony of another.
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