[a. L. commartyr fellow-martyr (see COM-); afterwards treated as a native compound.) A fellow-martyr.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 36. The said Sir Thomas Moores colleague and commartyre the blessed Bishop of Rochester.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 318. Some who are my co-martyrs.
So Co-martyred pa. pple., martyred together.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Festiv., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 370. He, with James co-martyrd, lost his Head.