| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To absolve, exonerate or exculpate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To discharge or release. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To resolve. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To justify.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Present participle conjugation of the verb acquit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (acquit) | 1. Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.[Wordnet]. 2. Behave in a certain manner.[Wordnet]. 3. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.[Websters]. 4. To pay for; to atone for.[Websters]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. To clear one's self.[Websters]. 7. To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.[Websters]. 8. Acquitted; set free; rid of.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: acquitting, acquitted, acquits, acquitter, acquitters, acquittingly and acquittedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACQUITTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ACQUITTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Setting free from accusation; releasing from a charge, obligation, or suspicion of guilt.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of acquit. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: acquit
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Autrefois acquit | Law | AUTREFOIS ACQUIT, crim. law, pleading. 1. A plea made by a defendant, indicted for a crime or misdemeanor, that he has formerly been tried and acquitted of the same offence. See a form of this plea in Arch. Cr. PI. 90. 2. To be a bar, the acquittal must have been by trial, and by the verdict of a jury on a valid indictment. Hawk. B. 2, c. 25, s. 1; 4 Bl. Com. 335. There must be an acquittal of the offence charged in law and in fact. Stark. PI. 355; 2 Swift's Dig. 400 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 452; 2 Russ. on Cr. 41. 3. The Constitution of the U.S., Amend. Art. 5, provides that no person shall be subject for the same offence to be put twice in jeopardy of life or limb. Vide generally, 12 Serg. & Rawle, 389; YeIv. 205 a, note. (references) | |
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