acquit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To declare or find innocent or not guilty.

   “But gently could his passion entertaine, / Though she Love's princesse, he a lowly swaine. / First of his bold intrusion she acquites him, / Then to her service (happy Boy!) admits him, / And, like another Love, with bow and quiver fits him.”

2. fiil To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.

   “Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his paines acquite; […]”

3. fiil to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.

   “The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.”

4. fiil To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.

   “The soldier acquitted herself well in battle.”

5. fiil To clear oneself.

   “God forbid any Malice ſhould preuayle, / That faultleſſe may condemne a Noble man: / Pray God he may acquit him of ſuſpicion.”

6. fiil past participle of acquit.

   “Well I am glad I am ſo acquit of this tinder Boy.^([sic – meaning Box]) / His ſtealth was too open, his filching was like / An vnskilfull ſinger, he kept not time.”

7. fiil To release, to rescue, to set free.

   “But be of cheare, and comfort to you take: / For till I haue acquitt your captiue knight, / Aſſure your ſelfe, I will you not forſake.”

8. fiil To pay for; to atone for.

   “For me I am the miſtreſſe of my fate, / And with my treſpaſſe neuer will diſpence, / Till life to death acquit my forſt offence.”