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Word Meanings - COMPURGATORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

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  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • COMPURGATION
    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. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • RELATE
    1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
  • RELATIVITY
    The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
  • RELATRIX
    A female relator.
  • RELATIONAL
    1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
  • COMPURGATORIAL
    Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.
  • RELATED
    See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
  • RELATOR
    A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
  • RELATER
    One who relates or narrates.
  • RELATION
    1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
  • COMPURGATOR
    One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.
  • RELATEDNESS
    The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson.
  • RELATIVENESS
    The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
  • RELATIONIST
    A relative; a relation.
  • RELATIVE
    Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • IRRELATIVE
    Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.
  • IRRELATION
    The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
  • PRELATEITY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • CORRELATE
    To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
  • PRELATY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • UNPRELATED
    Deposed from the office of prelate.
  • PRELATESHIP
    The office of a prelate. Harmar.
  • CORRELATABLE
    Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

 

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