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absolvitur

absolvitur is the obsolete spelling of absolviture.

absolvitur is the misspelling of absolvitor.

Meaning of absolviture

Noun

absolviture (uncountable)

  1. (rare) absolution
    • In Reſpect that the Provincial Aſſemblie of the Kirk gathered in Chriſt’s Name, holden at St. Andrews the Twelfth Day of April 1586, For manifeſt Crimes and open Contumacie, hath juſtly and formally according to the Word of God, and ſincere Cuſtom of this Kirk, excommunicated Mr. Patrick Adamſon...1586, “The Proteſtation of Mr. Andrew Hunter, againſt the abſolving the Biſhop of St. Andrews, without Repentance”, reprinted as addendum A in Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717) by Daniel...

Meaning of absolvitor

Noun

absolvitor (plural absolvitors)

  1. (Scots law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
    • 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

Origin of absolvitur

See absolviture and absolvitor, as applicable. The use of absolvitur for absolvitor is incorrect: the correct verb form of absolvō is the third-person singular future passive imperative form absolvitor (“let him be absolved”), and not the third-person singular present passive indicative form absolvitur (“he is absolved”).

Questions about absolvitur

What is absolvitur the obsolete spelling of?
Absolvitur is the obsolete spelling of absolviture.

Words near absolvitur in the dictionary

  1. absolving
  2. absolvings
  3. absolvitor
  4. absolvitors
  5. absolvitory
  6. absolvitur
  7. absolviture
  8. Abson
  9. absonant
  10. absonous
  11. absorb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: absolvitur (page history and authors); absolviture (page history and authors); absolvitor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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