aquytte, aqaitte, aqwytyn

t. [AQCUIT.] 1. To acquit, set free, release, pay. "Him behoueth paye ne neure aquitte he ne may, and thereuore ha ha el by ydammed."- Ayenbite (ed Morris), p. 137. "And the heghe men thet uol yeth the tornemens and thet hy betaketh hyre londes and hare critage ine wed and dead wed thet naght him ne aquytteth ." Ibid . , p. 36. IMG:content-0683.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0684.png:[blocks in formation] -ar. [An Eng. suffix, from Lat. -aris = of or belonging to; as stellar (Lat. stellar is ) = of or belonging to a star.] A.R. An abbreviation for Anno Regni = in the year of the reign; as, A.R.V.R. 30 = anno regni Victor iæ reg inæ tricesimo = in che 30th year of Queen Victoria's reign. *är, conj. [A.S. ar = ere, before.] [ERE.) Ere, before; ere ever, before ever. "But al to deere they bought it ar they гуве." Chaucer: C. T., 4,840.