Definitions For Compurgator

Noun

COMPURGATOR (plural COMPURGATORs) Someone who vouches for another person's innocence, trustworthiness etc. (now, _, historical, legal) A character witness in canon law who swore an oath that the accused was innocent. {{quote-text, en, year=1971, author={{w, Keith Thomas (historian), Keith Thomas}}, title=Religion and the Decline of Magic, page=244, publisher=Folio Society, year_published=2012 (historical, legal) An ‘oath-helper’ in Anglo-Saxon or Germanic law who testified to the character of an accused person.

Related terms

compurgation compurgatrix

Etymology

{{root, en, ine-pro, *pewH-}} From {{bor, en, ML., compurgator}} or {{bor, en, frm, compurgateur}}, from Latin compurgō ("to purify").