compurgatorial

English edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kɒmˌpɜː(ɹ)ɡəˈtɔːɹiəl/

Adjective edit

compurgatorial (comparative more compurgatorial, superlative most compurgatorial)

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.
- 1866, Henry Charles Lea, Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture:
  their compurgatorial oath

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compurgatorial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)