English Dictionary

absolve

/əbˈzɒlv/

verb

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). / (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.

The judge absolved the defendant of all charges.

意味（1）

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.

意味（2）

(transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.

[…] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]

意味（3）

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.

意味（4）

(transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.

Abſolves the juſt, and dooms the guilty ſouls.

意味（5）

(transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.

To make confession and to be absolved.

意味（6）

(transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.

In his name I abſolve your perjury and ſanctify your arms: follow my footſteps in the paths of glory and ſalvation; and if ſtill ye have ſcruples, devolve on my head the puniſhment and the ſin.

意味（7）

(transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.

and the work begun, how ſoon / Abſolv'd,

意味（8）

(transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.