Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

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  • noun obsolete One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

Etymologies

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Latin

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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. 1908

  • "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) James Anthony Froude 1856

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

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

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