compupilt (kompupil)

[ Donne and his sometime com - pupil in Cambridge,... Samuel Brook. I. Walton , Donne. compurgation (kom-per-gā'shon), n . [= Sp. compurgacion , compurgatio (n-), com purgare , pp. compurgatus , purge, purify completely, com-, together, + purgare , cleanse, purify: see purge .] In early Eng . law , a mode of trial in which the accused was permitted to call twelve persons of his acquaintance to testify to their belief in his innocence. See com purgator . Compurgation in the ecclesiastical courts was not abolished till the reign of Elizabeth. He freed himself By oath and compurgation from the charge. Tennyson, Harold, ii. 2. The killing of the adaling is atoned for by a fine twice or three times as large as that which can be demanded for the freeman; and his oath in compurgation is of twice or thrice the weight. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 24. compurgator (kom'pėr-ga-tor), n. [ML., compurgare : see compurgation .] In early Eng . law , a person, usually a kinsman or a fellow member in a guild, called in defense of a person on trial. The compurgators acted in the character rather of jurymen than of witne es, for they swore to their belief, not to what they knew that is, the accused making oath of his innocence, they swore that they believed he was speaking the truth. The number of compurgators required by law was regularly twelve. Honour and duty Stand my compurgators. Ford , Lady's Trial, iii. 3. The compurgators of our oldest law were not a Jury in the modern sense, but they were one of the elements out of which the Jury arose. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, V. 303. Trial by jury, as we know it now, was not one of the early English institutions. The mode of settling disputed questions of fact was at first by means of com purgators . Stillé , Stud. Med. Hist., p. 205. compurgatorial (kom-per-ga-toʻri-al), a. [ compurgator + -ial .] Pertaining to or intended for compurgation. The consuls of Avignon, Nismes, and St. Gilles took their compurgatorial oath to his fulfilment of all these stipulations. Milman, Latin Christianity, ix. 8. compurgatory (kom-per'ga-to-ri), a. [ compurgatory 1158 con A computer. Sir T. Browne. The treasurer was a wise man, and a strict computist. Sir H. Wotton. oath among the Welsh were exactly what they were among the Saxons, it would not be one degree le certain than it is that the wergild of the Saxons is the wergild of the Goth, the Frank, and the Lombard. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 30. compursiont (kom - për shọn), n. [ With the help of some wry faces and compursions of the mouth. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, iv. 27. computability (kom-pu-ta-bil'i-ti), n. [ com putable : see- bility . The quality of being computable. computable (kom-pu'ta-bl), a. [= Sp. comри table It = It. com put a bile, Not easily computable by arithmetic. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind.