Obs. exc. arch. Also 6 exoneratt. [ad. L. exonerāt-us, pa. pple. of exonerāre: see next.] Used as pa. pple. of next.
1528. in Burnet, Hist. Ref., II. 83. How may his Holiness find his Conscience towards God exonerate.
1546. in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. viii. 219. [They] shalbe clerely exoneratt & dyscharged of beryng eny maner of Armour.
1621. Bolton, Stat. Irel., 275 (an. 2 Eliz.). To be cleerly exonerate, acquited, and discharged.
1868. Lowell, Willows, in Amer. Poems (Routl.), 372. By right of birth exonerate from toil.
