(1):
(v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.
(2):
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
(3):
(v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
(4):
(v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
(5):
(v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
(6):
(v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.
(7):
(v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
(8):
(v. t.) The state of being forgiven.