Obs. rare. [f. the sb. Cf. to receipt an account, to pension, etc.] trans. To give an acquittance or discharge; to discharge.
1464. Marg. Paston, in Past. Lett., 490, II. 159. The sewtys wer wythdrawyn on bothe partyes, and iche of hem aquytauncyd othyr.
1590. Greene, Neuer too late (1600), 3. Nor am [I] a Pilgrime to acquittance sinne with penance.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., III. vii. 233. Your meere enforcement shall acquittance me From all the impure blots and staynes thereof.
