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compurgator

[ kom-per-gey-ter ]
/ ˈkɒm pərˌgeɪ tər /
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noun

a person who vouches for the innocence and truthful testimony of another.

RELATED WORDS

participant, plaintiff, actor, contractor, agent, confederate, defendant, plotter, partaker, litigant, sharer, participator

Nearby words

  1. compulsory,
  2. compulsory purchase,
  3. compunction,
  4. compunctious,
  5. compurgation,
  6. computation,
  7. computational,
  8. computational complexity,
  9. computational fluid dynamics,
  10. computational linguistics

Origin of compurgator

1525–35; < Medieval Latin, equivalent to compurgā(re) (see compurgation) + -tor -tor
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