• The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one waspublicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which wasprescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritualcourt was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clearof the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighborswith him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar,which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal. Wharton.Let him put me to my purgation. Shak.


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