1584. Peele, Arraignm. Paris, IV. iv. I must plead For safe excusal of my guiltless thought.
1620. Allured, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 91. Yea, upon the excusal of some, and refusal of others [who were bade to the marriage].
1864. R. A. Arnold, Cotton Fam., 286. The deficiency caused by the excusals on account of poverty.
1888. Whitby Gaz., 5 Oct., 3/3. The committee had met to go through the list of excusals and irrecoverables.