exonerateadj.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
Used as past participle of exonerate v.
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1528 in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 83 How may his Holiness find his Conscience towards God exonerate.
1546 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. viii. 219 [They] shalbe clerely exoneratt & dyscharged of beryng eny maner of Armour.
1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 275 ( ann. 2 Eliz.) To be cleerly exonerate, acquited, and discharged.
1868 J. R. Lowell Willows in Amer. Poems (Routl.) 372 By right of birth exonerate from toil.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
exoneratev.
/ᵻɡˈzɒnəreɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɒnəreɪt/, U.S. /ɪɡˈzɑnəˌreɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɑnəˌreɪt/ 1. transitive. To take off a burden from; to relieve of (a burden, material or immaterial); to unload, lighten (a ship); also humorously, to ‘relieve’ (a person) of his money. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > disencumber or disburden
uncharge1303
ease1393
uncumberc1440
discumber?1473
exonerate1524
unlade?1529
dispatch1530
disburden1531
unburden1538
unloaden1567
free1573
disbalass1576
unload1576
disencumber1598
dispester1600
disempester1613
relieve1671
disemburden1790
1524 King Henry VIII Instruct. Pace in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xiii. 30 Discharging or exonerating their galeis.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xi. f. 28v [They] haue praied to God to be exonerated of loue, aboue all other diseases.
1615 T. Adams Spirituall Nauigator 34 in Blacke Devill He striues to exonerate his shoulders.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 110 Exonerate Our sinking vessell, of his Deified Lode.
1637 J. Bastwick Vanity & Mischeife Old Letany iii. 13/1 They would quickly exonerat their families of them.
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxi. 218 It exonerateth the mind of all those dulling Indispositions.
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 308 The debt thus exonerated of so great a weight of its odium.
1798 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 29 Success would certainly exonerate our finances.
1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. x. 40 Be exonerated of his ready money and his constitution.
a. To discharge the contents of (the body, an organ), esp. by evacuation. to exonerate nature, to exonerate oneself: to relieve the bowels. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)] > empty bodily organ
voida1425
evacuate1542
exonerate1542
ush1887
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (reflexive)]
exonerate1542
ease1600
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. E.i And exonerate your selfe at all tymes that nature wold expell.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxx. sig. M.iv To exonerat the blader and the bely whan nede shall requyre.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 65 They sit all the day long, vnlesse they rise to exonerate nature.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 [They] ouer-load their mouthes..and by a sudden laughter exonerate their chaps.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 322 Cachectic Pills..exonerate the Habit of the Body.
1829 Health & Longevity 269 The bowels..ought to be exonerated at least once in two days.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiii. §1. 178 Over~charged..till they..exonerate as a Wolfe or Dog, too full gorged, with Carion.
1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans iv. 25 These Moors..accounting it a great piece of Rudeness to exonerate in the sight of another.
1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 103 Care is taken that these animals should exonerate upon stones, etc.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (reflexive)] > empty self
exonerate1598
derivea1631
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 113 Neither did this riuer exonerate it selfe into any sea.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 223 We all meet in the maine or Ocean, whereinto this Psalme and others doe exonerate themselves.
1659 W. S. Macollo's XCIX Canons in Physick 25 The great Veines..do exonerate themselves into the little.
1715 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 298 That [gulf] of Paria, into which the Lake of Titicaca does in part exonerate it self.
a. To discharge, pour off (a fluid product, a body of water).
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)]
wellc1400
runa1450
exonerate1615
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > off
defude1599
exonerate1615
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 429 It [the bile] is..exonerated into that which is called the Caua or hollow veine.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vi. 96 The streitnesse of the channell, wherein a great..sea is to be exonerated.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5009 The Lympha does wholly exonerate itself into the sub-clavial and jugular veins.
b. To cast off, get rid of (persons, population). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of > specifically a person
to shake off1530
unload1576
to shift offc1592
exonerate1614
shift1615
shab1677
purge1873
defenestrate1917
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. viii. §4. 139 These borderers..might exonerate their swelling multitudes.
1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder 23 Whereby such nefarious and facinerous persons may be exonerated.
5. To relieve from, †of (anything burdensome, a duty, obligation, payment, task, etc.).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation
freeeOE
unbind1297
quitclaima1325
acquit1340
excuse1340
loose1340
releasec1350
assoil1366
soilc1384
dischargea1387
quita1387
relieve1416
absoil1440
deliver1440
acquittance1448
quiet1450
acquiet1453
absolve?a1475
defease1475
skill1481
relax1511
redeema1513
exoner1533
exonerate1548
solvec1550
distask1592
disgage1594
upsolve1601
disoblige1603
disengage1611
to get off1623
exclude1632
supersedea1644
to let off1814
to let out1869
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxvii That he might..exonerate them of the great charges, trauayles & labors, that they now were in.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 25 Would God Sir Thomas Moore..had exonerated and discharged me of this my pains & labour.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2786/3 To exonerate and discharge them from all Arrears of Heath-money.
1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1842) II. 62 Mr. Hastings..offered to exonerate the company from that ‘charge’.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism ii. 75 A body of clergy exonerated of all solicitude.
1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) ii. 2 Commanding Royal Engineers will not exonerate any Officers..from the performance of such Duties.
6. To free from blame; to exculpate; also, to relieve from the blame or burden of; to relieve or set free from (blame, reproach).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate
cleansea1000
skere?c1225
unwreea1250
spurge1303
sunyiea1325
disblamec1374
quita1400
whitena1400
emplasterc1405
declare1460
clear1481
absolve1496
purgea1530
free1560
clenge1592
disculp1602
uncharge1604
exonerate1655
exculpate1656
wash1659
excriminate1661
to wipe the mouth of1687
disculpate1693
whitewash1703
rehabilitate1847
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 21 Nothing would prevail, nor would the Duke be exonerated.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity v. §12. 136 Such a season..sufficiently exonerateth God of every Man's Condemnation.
1817 G. Chalmers Life T. Churchyard in T. Churchyard Chips conc. Scotl. 40 That lord Oxford might be induced..to exonerate Churchyard.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 334 To exonerate myself of a greater crime.
1825 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 561 To exonerate her from the banal reproach of yielding unresisting to her passions.
a1848 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. viii. 489 Do we seek to exonerate His justice..by the denial of His faithfulness?
1884 D. Pae Eustace 187 I won't exonerate the Government.
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