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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who makes or is authorized to make an excuse or apology.
  2. n. In English law, one who makes an accusation.
  3. n. In old Ger. law, a defendant; one who wholly denies the plaintiff's cause of action.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

Etymologies

  1. Latin (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “excusator," sent merely to maintain that the King of England could not be cited to plead before the Papal Court, should be heard or not.”

    Henry VIII.

  • “excusator," a person formally empowered to protest for him that he could not by the laws of England plead at a foreign tribunal; and that with this imperfect recognition of his authority the pope would be satisfied.”

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

  • “He will send the excusator when he hears again from M. de”

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

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  1. apologist

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