| 释义 |
† accusement Obs.|əˈkjuːzmənt|
[a. MFr. accusement, vbl. n., f. accuser: see accuse and -ment.]
The action of accusing or charging with an offence; an accusing, an accusation, a charge.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 557 Than thynke I, this were her accusemente, Syn wel I woot I may hire nought purchace. 1393Gower Conf. I. 216 The gilteles was dampned there And deide upon accusement. 1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 27 To her husbande she accused him falsly... Ipolitus was murdered for this accusement. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. vii. 47 He gan t' efforce the evidence anew, And new accusements to produce. 1715Burnet Hist. Ref. (1865) III. 34 The same justices shall..punish the offenders, according as their offences shall appear to them upon the accusement. |