Now rare. [f. EXCUSE v. + -AL.] The action or fact of excusing; an instance of this. Const. of.

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1584.  Peele, Arraignm. Paris, IV. iv. I must plead For safe excusal of my guiltless thought.

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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].

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1864.  R. A. Arnold, Cotton Fam., 286. The deficiency caused by the excusals on account of poverty.

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1888.  Whitby Gaz., 5 Oct., 3/3. The committee had met … to go through the list of excusals and irrecoverables.

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