(a) Excused, exempt, free, freed; freed from an obligation; ~ from, exempt from (lawsuits, claims, or demands); free of obligation to (sb.); ~ of, excused from payment of (a debt, tribute, ransom, subsidy, customary charges); not subject to the jurisdiction of (a court); excused from the rigors of monastic discipline [quot.: c1230, 1st]; excused from reciting part of the daily office [quot.: c1230, 2nd]; claimen ~, to declare (sb.) free (from an obligation); graunten ~ of, declare (sb.) free of obligations to (oneself); haven ~, get (sb.) freely, possess without further payment; maken ~, free (sb.) from debt; quethen ~ of, declare (sb.) excused from (a duty or an office); gon ~, be excused from paying; (b) acquitted, cleared; ~ of, free from (accusations); forgiven for (a sin or sins), pardoned; don (finden) ~, to find (sb.) not guilty; gangen ~, of a prisoner: go free; gon ~, be free from suspicion [quot.: a1420]; of a prisoner or condemned person: go free; graunten ~, declare (sb.) innocent; haven ~, free (a prisoner), pardon; maken ~, exculpate (sb., oneself), acquit; declare (sb.) blameless; also, excuse (oneself), claim to be innocent [quot.: Cursor, 2nd]; (c) safe, unharmed; unpunished; ~ of, free from (suffering, need, sorrow, anger, etc.); ~ from deth, reprieved from a death sentence; gon (faren, wenden) ~, to go unharmed or unpunished; gon ~ of deth, escape death; kepen ~, preserve (sth.); maken ~, keep (sb.) from harm; save (sb.from hell); passen ~, go unharmed, go unchastised; of sin: go unpunished or unchecked; (d) ~ of, free from ( a sin or sins, vice, a fault); freed from (temptation); maken ~ of, to free (sb.) from (sin, temptation); (e) ben ~ of, to be rid of (sb. or sth.); (f) quethen ~, to declare (sb.) free to go; surrender (sb.) freely to (sb.).

Of real property: exempt from taxes, service, or other dues or claims; fre and ~, ~ and fre, discharged of all taxes, etc. [cp. fre adj. 3a.]; also, undisputed, free of impediments; ~ and cler, free and clear, without encumbrances.

(a) Deprived (of sb. or sth.); ~ of (from); ben ~ of lif, to be killed; maken ~ of, deprive (sb.) of (his office); (b) separated (from sth.); (c) ~ of necessite, not bound by necessity, not inevitable, contingent.

Satisfied, even, quits.