absolve

verb8

1. •
   To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

   • You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
2. •
   To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
3. •
   To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.

   • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. — 1725
4. •
   To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.

   • To make confession and to be absolved. — 1597
5. •
   To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.

   • In his name I absolve your perjury and sanctify your arms: follow my footsteps in the paths of glory and salvation; and if still ye have scruples, devolve on my head the punishment and the sin. — 1788
6. •
   To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
7. •
   (no longer used) To finish; to accomplish.

   • and the work begun, how soon / Absolv'd, — 1667
8. •
   (no longer used) To resolve; to explain; to solve.

   • […] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […] — 1595