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Verb
acquite (third-person singular simple present acquites, present participle acquiting, simple past and past participle acquited)
- Obsolete spelling of acquit..
1576, George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight: ”, in The Rocke of Regard, , London: for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, , →OCLC, page 48:Although it pleaſed you this other night (occasion by me unhappily miniſtred) to intertaine time with an ordinarie profeſſion of love, yet (maſter Rinaldo) you doe both me and your ſelfe great injurie to continue your needleſſe labour with ſuch importunancie to me. […] Thus muche (being your firſte attempt) I thought it good to anſwere, leaſt you ſhould think with needleſſe niceneſſe I acquited your courteſies.
1594, Torquato Tasso, translated by R[ichard] C[arew], Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Hierusalem: , London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Christopher Hunt of Exceter, →OCLC; quoted in “Art. III. Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recouerie of Hierusalem. ”, in [Henry Southern], editor, The Retrospective Review, volume III, part I, London: Charles and Henry Baldwin, , 1821, →OCLC, page 45:Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his paines acquite; […]
1619, Samuel Hieron, “ The Fourth Sermon.”, in The Sermons of Master Samvel Hieron, , London: Printed by Iohn Legatt, published 1620, →OCLC, page 188:[W]hen God ſaith of himſelfe, that he is one who acquiting will not acquite the wicked, his meaning is, that whatſoeuer may be ſuppoſed becauſe of his patience, yet he will not fully and finally diſcharge thoſe who goe on ſtill in their vngodly courſes, and preſume vpon his Mercy, without repentance.
1628, Phineas Fletcher (falsely attributed to Edmund Spenser), Brittain’s Ida. Written by that Renowned Poët, Edmond Spencer, London: Printed for Thomas Walkley, , →OCLC; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Poems of Phineas Fletcher, B.D., Rector of Hilgay, Norfolk: In Four Volumes (The Fuller Worthies’ Library), volume I, : Printed for private circulation, 1869, →OCLC, canto IV, stanza 8, page 72: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.
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