James Tandy is found a state prisoner with others after the rebellion, but this fact in itself is not enough to exculpate him; for Turner is also found a state prisoner.
Mignet's testimony to the incorruptibility of Reinhard--serves to exculpate him, and narrows the spot on which suspicion now rests.
McNally, while incriminating others, uniformly seeks to exculpate Braughall, whose counsel he was (MS.
Every one present joined in accusing the youth of direct participation in the deer-stealing; and he himself kept so obstinate a silence, that there was no possibility of drawing from him even a word that might exculpate himself.
She sought to exculpate me from the charges her father had brought against me; but he paid no regard to her asseverations, and remained deaf and inexorable to all her intreaties.
To exculpate herself, she voluntarily declares that she gave a considerable sum to Mr. Hastings, who never once denies the receipt.
Your Committee entertain doubts whether the refusal to exculpate by oath can be used as a circumstance to infer any presumption of guilt.
He would voluntarily exculpate himself by his oath.
But," interrupted Bulstrode, eagerly, "it was a simple thing to exculpate yourself.
It would have been a simple matter to exculpate yourself--you had not the funds in your possession, had never had them.
Thus, she would have had toexculpate herself, and what I wanted was for her to exculpate herself.
What, if I show you that, amongst the highest and most honourable of the land, there are those who will exculpate and defend you?
But do you feel sure, quite sure, that within one week you could bring forward proofs to exculpate yourself, and to show the guilt of this wretched man?
It does not exculpate them to say that they did not realize who Jesus was, and that they would not have crucified Him if they had realized His Divine dignity.
But not daring to take the only honorable and safe way of declaring His innocence, and summoning a cohort of soldiers to clear the court, he endeavored to exculpate himself by throwing the responsibility on Herod.
Montezuma, too, despatched an envoy who was instructed to impress the conqueror with the Emperor's continued fidelity, and to exculpate him from all blame in the movement against Alvarado.
I meet many who attempt to exculpate Mr. Seward from this or that untruth which he is accused having told to the President.
A letter in the papers, in all probability written under the eye of General Franklin, tries to exculpate the General from all the blood spilt at Fredericksburgh.
This was, indeed, an error in his conduct, arising less from pride, though of that feeling we do not pretend to exculpate him, than from a sort of bashful reluctance to mix in the conversation of those with whom he was not familiar.
If she should live, I shall make some investigation in a distant quarter, which may to some extent exculpate her, by proving her an accessory instead of principal.
Four months have been spent in hunting some fact that would tend to exculpate the accused, but each circumstance dragged to light serves only to swell the dismal chorus, 'Woe to the guilty'.
Thus, Goodall and Chalmers have laid it down as a principle, that in order to exculpate Mary, it was necessary to accuse her brother, the Earl of Murray, of all sorts of crimes.
Sidenote: Evil of denying the existence of evil to exculpate God.
I am here neither to exculpate myself nor to blame others.
He says that if Calcagno were alive, he would fullyexculpate him from the accusations; but as this person was dead it only remained for him to recite all the facts of the conspiracy.
When Cybo was arrested Scipione saw that it was necessary that he exculpate himself before Cæsar, and he asked an imperial audience through Francesco Barca, but the request was not granted.
As they were strictly confidential and could not have been obtained for publication without treachery somewhere, Jefferson had written to Washington to exculpate himself.
Sullivan's orders from Washington exculpate him from all blame as to the mode of punishing the Indians.
Is it, then, only to slandered men that the privilege belongs of desiring to exculpate themselves and their families and their friends from unjust censure?
Quite evidently she is not a Griselda, but possessed with a shocking desire to exculpate herself and her friends.
General, proceeds from my wish to exculpate myself from what may seem to have been an unqualified wrong done to a member of your family.
I hope Mr. Field can exculpate himself in the eyes of the Board, before the world, and before his own conscience, in the course he has taken.
I have made many inquiries about this affair, and they all tend to exculpate you.
For myself, however much disposed I should be to pardon him for many omissions, which in a work like his, are almost unavoidable, still I cannot exculpate him for this total silence.
Coronation of Charlemagne, by the hand of that Pontiff, and the Oath taken by the Pope on the Holy Evangelists, to exculpatehimself from the calumnies laid to his charge.
I have already demonstrated that this last assertion is a mere invention,[135] and though it is easy to fix deep guilt on the judge, it is impossible to exculpate the monarch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exculpate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
