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.
   • 1759, David Hume, “[Henry VIII.] Chapter IV.”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, 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.

References

“excusator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

excūsātor

1. 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.