Obs. Also 6 comperite, -perte. [ad. L. compert-um, pa. pple. of comperī-re to disclose fully, ascertain, f. com- + par(i)-ĕre to get. In meaning akin to late L. compertorium, a judicial inquest in civil cases (Du Cange).]
A thing found out by judicial inquiry.
1534. T. Bedyll, in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camd. Soc.), 50. Maister Leyghton hath wreten certen compertes unto you.
1535. T. Legh, ibid., 66. As ye shall knowe by the compertes in this visitation.
1535. J. Ap Rice, ibid., 85. To advertise yow of our procedinges there, and also of the compertes of the same.
1539. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), 417. When comperites doth shew what fedities doth grow.
