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compurgatrix

compurgatrix noun: female compurgator.

Noun

compurgatrix (plural compurgatrices)

  1. (historical) Female compurgator.
    • 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.1651, Fr[ancis] Withins Gen. Com. of S. Johns, “Thou Pill too strong for fate!”, in Newes from the dead. Or A true and exact narration of the miraculous deliverance of Anne Greene, who being executed...
    • Who courted you? Did I? No, Heaven knows / 'Twas otherwiſe: If not; you Madam can / Be my compurgatrix: Nor think it ſtrange1664, John Wilson, Andronicus Comnenius: A Tragedy, London: Printed for John Starkey, at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleetſtreet, →OCLC, page 44
    Synonyms:
    compurgatress

Synonyms of compurgatrix

  • compurgatress

Forms of compurgatrix

pluralcompurgatrices

Origin of compurgatrix

From Latin compurgatrix, equivalent to compurgator (“someone who vouches for another person's innocence”) + -trix (female agent noun-forming suffix).

Questions about compurgatrix

What does compurgatrix mean?
Compurgatrix means female compurgator.
What part of speech is compurgatrix?
Compurgatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of compurgatrix?
The plural of compurgatrix is compurgatrices.

Words near compurgatrix in the dictionary

  1. compurgator
  2. compurgatorial
  3. compurgators
  4. compurgatory
  5. compurgatrices
  6. compurgatrix
  7. compursion
  8. compursions
  9. compusex
  10. compuspeak
  11. computabilities

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