explacitare

explacitare , (leg.) to gain by pleading, plead for successfully. b (refl.) to clear (oneself) by pleading. a1084 illas terras quas ipse abbas ~avit coram vij schiris ‥ contra omnes injuste eas quaerentes Regesta p. 125; Lanfrancus ~avit illud [manerium de Sunderhersce] contra episcopum Bajocensem Dom. Cant. f. 3.  b alius dies ponatur ei, et tunc ~et se, vel emendet, nisi competens soinus intercedat (Leg. Hen. 50. 3) GAS 573; s1051 ut magnates illius castelli blande in curia regis de seditione convenirentur. si se possent ~are, illesi abirent W. Malm. GR II 199 p. 242.