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recriminate, v.|rɪˈkrɪmɪneɪt|
[f. recrimināt-, ppl. stem of med.L. recrimināri: see re- 2 and criminate v. Cf. F. récriminer (16th c. in Littré).]
1. intr. To retort an accusation; to bring a charge or charges in turn against one's accuser.
1611Cotgr., Recriminer, to recriminate, retort a crime [etc.]. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 82 Sir H. Y[elverton] came as a delinquent, and dyd recriminate. 1651Tombes in Baxter Inf. Bapt. 202, I love not to recriminate, for that were to scold. 1777Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol Wks. III. 161 To criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to reconciliation, in any difference amongst men. 1812D'Israeli Calam. Auth. (1882) 485 Such are some of the personalities with which Decker recriminated. 1884Church Bacon i. 26 Bacon is able to recriminate with effect, and to show gross credulity and looseness of assertion on the part of the Roman Catholic advocate.
b. Const. on, upon (a person, etc.). ? Obs.
1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal i. (1697) 28 How shall such Hypocrites Reform the State, On whom the Brothels can Recriminate? 1752Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess. Bute 20 Oct., I never recriminate on the lives of their Popes and Cardinals, when they urge the character of Henry the Eighth. 1786Francis the Philanthropist II. 72 This circumstance inspired me..to re-criminate on my base accuser.
2. trans.
a. To accuse (a person) in return; to make a counter-charge against (the accuser). Also const. of. Now rare.
1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 82 [It] is punishable in the Starr Chamber, yf the defendant dothe recriminate the plaintiff in his aunswere, but to recriminate a third person worse. 1683Case of Mixt Communion 41, I speak not this to excuse our selves, or to recriminate them. 1701Whitehead Truth Prevalent 177 Bitterly Aspersing, and odiously Recriminating us in many things of a publick Nature. 1819Metropolis II. 151 She too recriminated certain characters in turn.
†b. To return or retort (a charge or accusation) against, upon a person. Obs.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xii. (1632) 594, I would suspect recriminate, or retorte the fault upon you. 1626in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 224 While he was in his declaration, the Kings Attorney comes in and recriminates a grievous accusation of High Treason against him. 1653Ashwell Fides Apost. 266 Athanasius..had the charge of Heresy recriminated also upon him. |