ACCUSE
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Ac*cuse" (&unr_;), n. Accusation. [Obs.] Shak.
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Ac*cuse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accused (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Acts xxiv. 13.
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We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
Macaulay.
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2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
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Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
Rom. ii. 15.
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3. To betray; to show. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.
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Syn. -- To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign. -- To Accuse, Charge, Impeach, Arraign. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.
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