? Obs. [a. OFr. aquitement action of acquitting. See ACQUIT v. and -MENT.] The action of acquitting, discharging or releasing; acquittal, discharge, release.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xiv. 98 (1851). The indulgent arrears which those judiciall acquitments had ingaged him in. Ibid. (1645), Tetrachordon, 191. On both sides the acquitment will be reasonable, if the bondage be intolerable.
1683. trans. Erasmus, Moriæ Enc., 27. Creditable acquitment of ovrselves in any one station of life.
1703. Manton, Expos. Is., liii. 6, Wks. 1871, III. 320. It is God that justifieth, the whole business of your acquitment is carried on by the Lord.
1810. Bentham, Art of Packing (1821), 255. The judge’s certificate of acquitment.
