criminate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to charge with a crime.
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to incriminate.
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to censure (something) as criminal; condemn.
verb
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to charge with a crime; accuse
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to condemn or censure (an action, event, etc)
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short for incriminate
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Etymology
Origin of criminate
First recorded in 1635–45; from Latin crīminātus, past participle of crīminārī “to accuse”; see origin at crime, -ate 1
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The English law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from all efforts to make him criminate himself.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
When the Commission met, and the treasurer and his deputy were called before it, they refused to answer questions which would criminate themselves.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe
Nay, prisoner, you are not called on to say what may criminate you.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
It is not to criminate him that I have laid the truth before the public.
From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
They accepted, indeed, her bribes, but prudently declined to carry out their part of the agreement, well knowing that she dare not venture to criminate herself by an open rupture with them.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
From Time Magazine Archive
After his tongue got limbered up, and his memory refreshed, he criminated Ury.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our Church in consequence of their own ignorance and inadvertence in not knowing, or not noticing, the contra-distinction here meant between power and authority.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Had Pilate been compelled to give sentence against Christ, he would have had no sense of guilt; nor could he have been justly criminated.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
That testimony is within the jurisdiction of the Priests alone who are criminated.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Once some of the novelty wears off, Xerox users will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He says that had I come armed with affidavits criminating any individual, or even justifying a strong and distinct suspicion, their powers would be much larger.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Thus messages passed back and forth two or three times, each party criminating the other, and neither willing to make the concessions which the other required.
From Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
For this he was indebted to one of the girls who would not join the others in criminating him.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
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