criminate
Verb
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Verb
criminate (criminates, present participle criminating; past and past participle criminated)
- (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:
- ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:
- (transitive, now, rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]
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