arch. [Short for acquited, acquitted, on analogy of pa. pples. like hit, lit, hid. See QUIT.] Acquitted, cleared, set free.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 362. Nought as he wolde, it was acquit.
1460–4. Past. Lett., 434, II. 81. I am ryght ille aqwyt.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, 15. I am herin clerely acquytte and discharged of all blame.
1674. Govt. of Tongue, § 6, 137. We may then … see him we censur’d acquit, and our selves doom’d.
1875. Blackmore, A. Lorraine, I. xi. 88. Hilary Lorraine was quite acquit of Oxford leading-strings.
