disculp
verbUK /dɪˈskʌlp/ · US /dɪˈskəlp/
Etymology First attested in 1602; borrowed from French disculper or its own etymon, Medieval Latin disculpō, from dis- + culpō. Doublet of disculpate.
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Rare To disculpate.
- Of nothinge in this one fault […] can I disculpe myselfe.1602, John Donne, Letter 11 February in A. J. Kempe, Loseley Manuscripts (1836):
- I trusted that the conventional lie that disculps the author of a roman à clef would be recognised for what it was.1972, Julian Pitt-Rivers, The People of the Sierra: