Crossword-Solution: ABSOLVER 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

First, he is the purifier or purger or absolver (apolouon); secondly, he is the true diviner, Aplos, as he is called in the Thessalian dialect (aplos = aplous, sincere); thirdly, he is the archer (aei ballon), always shooting; or again, supposing alpha to mean ama or omou, Apollo becomes equivalent to ama polon, which points to both his musical and his heavenly attributes; for there is a “moving together” alike in music and in the harmony of the spheres.

SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? HERMOGENES: Very true.

The absolver saw the mighty grief, And hastened with relief;— “The Lord forgives; thou shalt not die:” ’Twas gently spoke, yet heard on high, And all the band of angels, used to sing In heaven, accordant to his raptured string, Who many a month had turned away With veilèd eyes, nor owned his lay, Now spread their wings, and throng around To the glad mournful sound, And welcome, with bright open face, The broken heart to love’s embrace.

But to do that Gentleman Broom-stick Rider some Justice, and because we shall want a Name hereafter to Christen the t'other, as he has given the Name of _Relapser_, so I think that of the _Absolver_ will be a very proper one to distinguish our Switcher, by which the Reader may observe, that we are civiller to him than he to us however.

And first then, I desire all Persons to observe, that in other places of the same Chapter of his Book, our _Absolver_, for all his detestation of the Stage, and of Poetry in general, yet takes a huge deal of pains in taking to pieces, and mending the Comedy of the _Relapse_; nay, and to shew how transcendent his own Skill in these things is, he has help'd the Author to a better Name for his Play, and says, _The Younger Brother_, or, _The Fortunate Cheat_, had been much properer.