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hends; one who has attained to a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

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.

tion (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him." Shak. -- Conditions of sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.…

ndition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.

One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator. Burrill.

A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.

Having or wearing a crown.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

he better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

language; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak.

Wearing a cothurn.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." Emerson.

Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.

to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.

ation, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the weare; hence, also, the helmet. Stooping low his lofty crest. Sir W. Scott. And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight. Gower.

Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.