Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) 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..

Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.

Compurgator :: Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

Compurgatorial :: Compurgatorial (a.) Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.

Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..

Expurgated :: Expurgated (imp. & p. p.) of Expurgat.

Expurgating :: Expurgating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expurgat.

Expurgation :: Expurgation (n.) The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous..

Expurgator :: Expurgator (n.) One who expurgates or purifies.

Expurgatorial :: Expurgatorial (a.) Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

Expurgatorious :: Expurgatorious (a.) Expurgatory.

Expurgatory :: Expurgatory (a.) Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

Purgament :: Purgament (n.) That which is excreted; excretion.

Purgament :: Purgament (n.) A cathartic; a purgative.

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels..

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

Purgative :: Purgative (a.) Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

Purgative :: Purgative (n.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.

Purgatively :: Purgatively (adv.) In a purgative manner.

Purgatorial :: Purgatorial (a.) Alt. of Purgatoria.

Purgatorian :: Purgatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

Purgatorian :: Purgatorian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.

Purgatory :: Purgatory (a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

Purgatory :: Purgatory (n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

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