Compurgatrix
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Compurgatrix is a noun meaning (historical) Female compurgator.
Meaning
(historical) Female compurgator.
Example Sentences
Who courted you? Did I? No, Heaven knows / 'Twas otherwiſe: If not; you Madam can / Be my compurgatrix: Nor think it ſtrange
Sarra, wife of William Beyonde Toune, had acted as compurgatrix for Clarence de Upcote, accused of counterfeiting a key to a rectory granary.
Thou Pill too ſrong for fate! in whoſe defence / Mira'cles ſtept in to reſscue innocence. / Death was thy Ordeall, and Compurgatrix / And Minos did thy Judges doome refix.
At Belynges Parva Alice Fynne is charged with using 'magical art,' for when Andrew her husband died, he asserted that his death was due to her superstitious art. She produces four women as "compurgatrices" and is dismissed.
Word Forms
- compurgatrices
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include compurgator, procuress, accusatrix, prolocutrix, captivatrix, interrogatress.
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