Obs. Also -burger. [f. COM- + BURGHER.]
1. A fellow-burgher; a freeman of a city or state between which and other cities or states mutual citizenship is established: cf. COMBOURGEOISY.
1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. I. 158. If Iaffa Marchants, now Comburgers seeme With Portingalls and Portingalls with them.
2. = COMBURGESS 2 (? an error for it).
1683. Addr. fr. Grantham, in Lond. Gaz., No. 1859/3. The Alderman, Recorder, Comburgers.