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accuser|əˈkjuːzə(r)|
Also 5–6 accusar.
[f. accuse v. + -er1. See the parallel forms accusour from OFr. and accusatour from MFr. and L. Accuser, though Eng. in form, may have originated in an altered pronunciation of accusour with accent thrown back and final syllable obscured. Cf. soldier, warder, orig. soldiour, wardour.]
One who accuses or blames; esp. one who accuses or prosecutes in a court of justice.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5422 Many accusers þar sal be þan..Fiften maneres of accusours sere. 1388Wyclif Acts xxiii. 35 Y schal here thee he seide, whanne thin accuseris comen [1526 Tindale, accusars]. 1489Caxton Fayt of Armes iv. xi. 262 What shuld be doon of the accusar. 1535Coverdale 2 Esd. xvi. 65 Youre owne synnes shalbe youre accusers in that daye. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 174 Take that of me my friend, who haue the power to seale th' accusers lips. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 10 Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down, The tempter ere the accuser of mankind. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 4 Whatever Persons the Civil-Law forbids to be accusers, the Canon-Law does the self-same. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. vi. 499 Godwine's accuser was an Englishman of the highest rank.
Comb. accuser-general n., accuser-like adj. or adv.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iv. 88 Whosoeuer knoweth the thyng it selfe will confesse that there is nothyng spoken accuserlike. 1828E. Irving Last Days 209 There is no accuser-general in any Christian state, nor in any Christian church. |