absolvitor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin absolvitor (literally “let him be acquitted”), the third-person singular future passive imperative form of absolvō (“I absolve, acquit, or declare innocent”).[1] Compare absolutory.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbˈsɒl.vɪ.tɔː/, enPR: ăbsŏlʹvĭtôr
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɑl.və.tɚ/, /æbˈzɑl.və.tɚ/, /æbˈsɑl.və.tɔɹ/, /æbˈzɑl.və.tɔɹ/
Noun
absolvitor (plural absolvitors)
- (Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575:
- Pitmedden purſues Seaton of Menzies as Repreſenting his Father, who was one of the Purſuers Brothers Tutors, for his Fathers Intromiſſion with the Pupils Means, who alleadged Abſolvitor.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575:
Antonyms
Derived terms
- decree of absolvitor
References
- “absolvitor” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
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