excusator
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excusator.
Noun
excusator (plural excusators)
- (obsolete) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
- 1759, David Hume, “[Henry VIII.] Chapter IV.”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 837645497, page 173:
- Henry was determined not to ſend any proxy to plead his cauſe before this court: He only deſpatched Sir Edward Karne and Dr. Bonner, in quality of excuſators, (ſo they were called,) to carry his apology, for not paying that deference to the papal authority.
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References
excusator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Verb
excūsātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of excūsō
References
- “excusator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excusator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- excusator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette