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Definition: COMPURGATION |
COMPURGATIONTransitive verb1. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. 2. The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. |
Date "COMPURGATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Etymology: Compurgation \Com`pur*ga"tion\, noun. [Latin expression compurgatio, from compurgare to purify wholly; com- purgare to make pure. See Purge, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquittal | Noun: acquittal, acquitment; clearance, exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge; (release); quietus, absolution, compurgation, reprieve, respite; pardon; (forgiveness). |
Evidence | Secondary evidence; confirmation, corroboration, support; ratification; (assent); authentication; compurgation, wager of law, comprobation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: COMPURGATION |
| English words defined with "COMPURGATION": Compurgatorial. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "COMPURGATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Unschuldigsprechung. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompurgationcay tanıkların yeminiyle suçun aklanması. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COMPURGATION": compurgations. (additional references) | |
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"COMPURGATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comporation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "COMPURGATION" (pronounced 'Com`pur*ga"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: carpogonium. | |
-2 letters: comparting, comporting. | |
-3 letters: agronomic, autonomic, capturing, comparing, computing, contagium, outpacing, outracing, pictogram, promoting, purgation, uprooting. | |
-4 letters: aconitum, acromion, autogiro, caroming, coapting, compting, coopting, copatron, coumarin, couranto, courting, cramping, crampoon, crumping, curating, gumption, impactor, maturing, monocarp, monocrat, motoring, origanum, picaroon, picogram, pronotum, protamin, protonic, rogation, romantic, tramping, tromping, trooping, trouping, trumping, upcoming, uprating. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: compurgations. | |
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