ACQUITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquitted mean? 

• ACQUITTED (adjective)
  The adjective ACQUITTED has 1 sense:

1. declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless

  Familiarity information: ACQUITTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless

Synonyms:

acquitted; not guilty

Context example:

the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)

 Context examples 

Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers, to persuade myself, that his majesty’s present seventies acquitted me of all past obligations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am happy—and he is acquitted.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him; but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consolation to Sir Thomas.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Now, my sweet Catherine, all our distresses are over; you are honourably acquitted, and we shall have a most delightful party.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and submitted to the defending counsel.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are acquitted, Captain Crocker.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has changed his hour of going, I suppose, that is all, or I may be mistaken, I might not attend; and walked back to her chair, recomposed, and with the comfortable hope of having acquitted herself well.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At that hour most of the others were sewing likewise; but one class still stood round Miss Scatcherd's chair reading, and as all was quiet, the subject of their lessons could be heard, together with the manner in which each girl acquitted herself, and the animadversions or commendations of Miss Scatcherd on the performance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)