ACREDULITARE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ACREDULITARE, obsolete. To purge one's self of an offence by oath. It
  frequently happens that when a person has been arrested for a contempt, he
  comes into court and purges himself, on oath, of having intended any
  contempt. Blount, Leges. Inac. c. 36.