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)

  1. (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.

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • decree of absolvitor

References

  1. ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 9

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

absolvitor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of absolvō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of absolvō

Descendants

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