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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Acquit \Ac*quit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acquitted}; p. pr & vb n. {Acquitting}.] [OE. aquiten OF aquiter F. acquitter; ? (L. ad) + OF quiter, F. quitter, to quit See {Quit}, and cf {Acquiet}.] 1. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off to pay off to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. --I. Taylor. 2. To pay for to atone for [Obs.] --Shak. 3. 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. 4. Reflexively: a To clear one's self --Shak. b 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. Syn: To absolve; clear; exonerate; exonerate; exculpate; release; discharge. See {Absolve}.
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