1. Set free, delivered, cleared.
1535. Coverdale, Jer. vii. 9. Tush, we are absolued quyte, though we haue done all these abhominacions.
1651. Hobbes, Leviathan, III. xlii. 275. In case the absolved have but a feigned Repentance.
1815. Scott, Ld. of Is., VI. xxix. Even if now He stood absolved of spousal vow.
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. v. 375. He may have thought himself absolved from his duty.
† 2. Cleared up, solved; completed. Obs.
1577. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Fam. Ep., 171. Beholde your doubt absolued.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 301. When the Infant is perfected and absolued the vitall heate floweth onely from the heart as from a most plentifull fountaine.
