Acquit: Definition and part of speech

Acquit

  1. p. p. Acquitted; set free; rid of.
  2. v. t. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
  3. v. t. To pay for; to atone for.
  4. v. t. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; — now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
  5. v. t. To clear one’s self.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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