3. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
4. Reflexively: (a) To clear one's self. Shak. (b) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.
Syn. -- To absolve; clear; exonerate; exonerate; exculpate; release; discharge. See Absolve.
Ac*quit"ment (-ment), n. [Cf. OF. aquitement.] Acquittal. [Obs.] Milton.
Ac*quit"tal (&?;), n. 1. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
2. (Law) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.
Ac*quit"tance (&?;), n. [OF. aquitance, fr. aquiter. See Acquit.] 1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers.
Shak.
Ac*quit"tance, v. t. To acquit. [Obs.] Shak.
Ac*quit"ter (&?;), n. One who acquits or releases.
||A*cra"ni*a (&?;), n. [NL., from Gr. 'a priv. + &?; skull.] 1. (Physiol.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
2. pl. (Zoöl.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists.
A*cra"ni*al (&?;), a. Wanting a skull.
{ A*crase", A*craze" } (&?;), v. t. [Pref. a- + crase; or cf. F. écraser to crush. See Crase, Craze.]