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criminate, v.|ˈkrɪmɪneɪt|
[f. L. crīmināt-, ppl. stem of crīmināri, or crīmināre to accuse, charge with crime, f. crīmen crime.]
1. trans. To charge with crime; to represent as criminal.
1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1646) 62 They criminate the Dutch and French Churches. 1793Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 386, I suppose the public servants will be criminated. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 134 We must begin in self-justification..by criminating those whom we mean to destroy. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 699 The noble penitent then proceeded to make atonement for his own crime by criminating other people..guilty and innocent.
2. To prove (any one) guilty of crime; to incriminate.
1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xii, Whom, I would not justifie myself, to criminate. 1791State Papers in Ann. Reg. 160* They cannot be examined, criminated, or judged..with respect to what they have said, written, or performed. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 129 Determined not to criminate himself by any allusion to the circumstance.
3. To represent or censure (a thing or action) as criminal; to blame severely, condemn.
a1677Ld. North Light in Way to Paradise (1682) 29 (T.) As for our church liturgy it is now criminated by many as idolatrous. 1792W. Roberts Looker-on No. 43 (1794) II. 138 To criminate the motives and actions of mankind. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. xii. 327 Eliot descends to criminate the Duke's magnificent tastes.
Hence ˈcriminating ppl. a.
a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 427 Spoken with a sterne countenance and criminating voice. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 210 Applying no stronger or more criminating epithets than those of ‘improper, unwarrantable, and highly impolitick’. 1801M. Edgeworth Belinda iii, A long criminating and recriminating chapter. |