transitive. To make free; to set at liberty; to release from bondage or confinement. Also figurative.

figurative. To make free, to release, from some legal restraint or obligation. Also absol. Obsolete.

transitive. To declare (a person) free; to release, acquit, or discharge. Also intransitive. Now archaic and historical.

transitive. Chiefly with of or from. To relieve (a person) of an obligation; to release from a duty, prior undertaking, etc. Now rare and archaic.

To obtain exemption or release for; to allege reasons for the exemption of (a person) from a duty or obligation. Const. †for, from, in early use with…

In immaterial sense: To set free, release, emancipate; †to absolve (a person). Const. from (†of).

transitive. To grant remission or discharge of (a vow, task, or similar obligation). Now chiefly historical.

To set free, discharge, or release (of, from obligations, liabilities); = absolve, v. 1. Obsolete.

To set free of, release from, an obligation, etc. Cf. assoil, v. 3.

transitive. To relieve of a duty, debt, or other obligation; to exempt, release from; spec. to release (a bankrupt) from further legal liability for…

transitive. To free or rid of something undesirable or troublesome; to release from a debt or obligation. Chiefly with person as object. Obsolete.

transitive. Chiefly Law. To free or clear (a person) of or from an obligation, debt, or the like; to remit, give legal relief to. Also intransitive…

transitive. To absolve, esp. from sin; = assoil, v. I.

transitive. To fight or joust with (a person); to agree to fight a duel with (a person), esp. as a means of solving a personal quarrel or…

transitive. To acquit; to give an acquittance to.

transitive. To release (oneself or another) from a debt or obligation; to acquit (oneself). Obsolete.

transitive. = acquit, v. (in various senses); esp. to free of claims or obligations. Chiefly in to warrant, acquiet, and defend: see warrant, v.…

transitive. To set free or discharge from (also of) an oath, obligation, liability, etc.

Scottish. transitive. To release (a person) from a debt or obligation; to acquit. With of specifying the debt or obligation. Obsolete.

To make free or quit of. Obsolete.

transitive. Scottish. To free or discharge (a person) from restraint, legal process, or penalty. Also intransitive: to obtain a relaxation (relaxation…

transitive. To free from an obligation or claim. Frequently with from. Now rare.

= exonerate, v. in various senses: To relieve from a burden; to free from responsibility, liability, or blame. Now only in Scots Law.

To relieve from, †of (anything burdensome, a duty, obligation, payment, task, etc.).

To absolve. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To relieve of a task, to exonerate.

transitive. To release from pledge or pawn; to set free, disengage.

= absolve, v. 3a (in quot. representing uneducated speech).

transitive. To set free from obligation; to release from duty or engagement. Const. of, from. Obsolete.

transitive. To free from engagement, pledge, contract, or obligation. Obsolete except as past participle.

transitive. To deliver (a person) from punishment, or procure a modified penalty for.

To let off, relieve, exempt (a person) from (an obligation). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. With from or second object. To refrain from inflicting something undesirable on (a person), to spare. Obsolete.

To allow to go or escape; to excuse from punishment, service, etc. (Cf. 11b.)

To give egress to; to cause or allow to go out or escape by an opening, esp. through a doorway (also absol.); to set free, liberate; to release…