excusator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excusator.

Noun

excusator (plural excusators)

1. (obsolete) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “excusator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) excūsātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of excūsō
2. 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.