Definizione monolingua

acquit

acquit (third-person singular simple present acquits, present participle acquitting or acquiting, simple past and past participle acquitted or acquited)

1. To declare not guilty; innocent
2. (followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge, to find not guilty.

   The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.

   • 1775, Richard Sheridan, The duenna

     His poverty, can you acquit him of that?

   • 1837, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Lord Bacon” in The Edinburgh Review, July 1837

     If he [Bacon] was convicted, it was because it was impossible to acquit him without offering the grossest outrage to justice and common sense.

3. (obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, line 1071

     Till life to death acquit my forced offence.

4. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
   • 1482 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book II, 1200

     ‘Aquyte him wel, for goddes love,’ quod he;

   • 1640, Thomas Carew, Tasso

     Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his painees acquite.

   • 1836, Edward Everett, Orations I-382

     I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity.

   • 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience” in Essays: second series

     We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

5. (reflexive) To clear one’s self.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, III-ii

     Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!

6. (reflexive) To bear or conduct one’s self; to perform one’s part.

   The soldier acquitted himself well in battle.

   The orator acquitted himself very poorly.

   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The vicar of Wakefield, xiv

     Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation.

7. (obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I, I-vii-52

     Till I have acquit your captive Knight.

Definizione dizionario acquit

	assolvere
	To pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.

assòlvere

esonerare

liberare

prosciogliere

scolpare

Altri significati:

(followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge, to find not guilty.

(archaic) Past participle of acquit , set free, rid of.

obsolete: release, rescue

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.

To declare not guilty; innocent

reflexive: clear one’s self

(reflexive) To bear or conduct one’s self; to perform one’s part.

discharge a claim or debt

discharge from an obligation

(reflexive) To clear one’s self.

(obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.

(obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for