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单词 compurgation
释义 compurgation
 /kom'peuhr gay"sheuhn/,  n.  
 an early common-law method of trial in which the defendant is acquitted on the sworn endorsement of a specified number of friends or neighbors.
 [1650-60; < ML compurgation- (s. of compurgatio), equiv. to com- COM- + purgat(us) (ptp. of purgare to PURGE) + -ion- -ION]
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