Definitionadj. declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime
Last update: July 5, 2015
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Charles Augustus Briggs, tried for heresy for his inaugural address in 1891 as professor of biblical theology at Union Seminary (in which he attacked the inerrancy of the Bible, held the composite character of the Hexateuch and of the Book of Isaiah and taught that sanctification is not complete at death), was acquitted by the presbytery of New York, but was declared guilty and was suspended from its ministry by the General Assembly of 1893. [Please select]
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Who found such vast sums of money, and acquitted them on her own credit. [Please select]
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Should he, however, be acquitted, then as my word is given so shall it be. [Please select]
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I should be acquitted, and the public would cheer till the court had to be cleared. [Please select]
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He was certainly tried, defended himself, and he may have been at first acquitted. [Please select]
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It appeared as if he did not wish to be acquitted. [Please select]
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We cannot otherwise suppose than that he did not wish to be acquitted. [Please select]
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The French Revolution acquitted the American people of all obligations to France. [Please select]
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"But she was acquitted." [Please select]
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"No; she was acquitted." [Please select]
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Cremieux and acquitted. [Please select]
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