[f. prec. sb.] To give amnesty to, to admit to amnesty; to proclaim the overlooking of the past offences of (rebels).
1809. [See AMNESTIED.]
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. iii. 294. And so hereby all is amnestied, and finished?
1851. Mariotti, Italy, i. 33. It was, in fact, the pope himself, or the papacy that was amnestied.
1869. Echo, 13 Dec. Mr. Gladstone … won’t be bullied into amnestying the Fenian convicts.
