Obs. [f. the vb.; cf. Fr. acquit, OFr. aquit, acuit, f. aquiter to ACQUIT.] The act of acquitting; discharge; guarantee; acquittance, acquittal.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 33. Madame I haue seruid you as well as to me is possible … for thacquite of chiualerye.
a. 1521. Helyas, in Thoms’ E. E. Pr. Rom. (1858), III. 135. The sayd abbot … demaunded of him familiarly the sauf conduyt and acquite for the countreys and landes of beyonde the sea.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., I. 291, note. Faintly, and only by way of acquit.
