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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 628 I would suspect, recriminate or retorte the fault vpon you.

1626 J. Mede Let. 6 May in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 224 Whiles he was in his declaration, the King's attorney comes in and recriminates a grievous accusation of High Treason against him.

1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 266 Athanasius..had the charge of Heresy recriminated also upon him.

1867 Catholic World Apr. 104/2 We might, therefore, with just as much reason recriminate upon Dr. Bacon his own accusations.

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 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.

1683 Case of Mixt Communion 41 I speak not this to excuse our selves, or to recriminate them.

1701 G. Whitehead Truth Prevalent 177 Bitterly Aspersing, and odiously Recriminating us in many things of a publick Nature.

1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 151 She too recriminated certain characters in turn.

1845 S. J. B. Hale Keeping House & Housek. ix. 71 Fired with indignation, she burst into the room, and they criminated and recriminated each other, until Mrs. Harley was obliged to order them both out of the room.

1906 C. F. Marshall tr. A. Fournier Prophylaxis Syphilis in Treatm. Syphilis II. ii. 34 I have many times heard patients who, having married prematurely, had infected their wives and lost several children, lay the blame on their physician, and recriminate him in this way: ‘Why did my doctor allow me to marry?’

1812 D. Hitchcock Social Monitor p. xv The reader may be led to enquire, whether the author..is himself free from those vanities, follies, and errors... He begs leave to state, that the laws of his country do not oblige him to recriminate himself.

1958 J. Barth End of Road iii. 37 Her error, I feared, was that she would recriminate herself for some time afterwards for having humbled herself in fact, and not in fun.

1975 Philosophy 50 298 He may come to recriminate himself for failing to do certain things though at the time there was no prescription to act in the manner now thought so important.

2001 R. Ben-Ghiat Fascist Modernities 205 The trauma of national division and defeat made it difficult for Italians to recriminate themselves for their past actions.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recriminer, to recriminate, retort a crime [etc.].

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 82 Sir H. Y[elverton] came as a delinquent, and dyd recriminate.

1651 J. Tombes in R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 202 I love not to recriminate, for that were to scold.

1699 R. Ferguson Just & Modest Vindic. Scots Design 207 Namely that were I inclinable to recriminate, it were easy to fasten some of the worst of those imputations upon the Spaniards, whereof themselves have been so hasty to accuse the Scots.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxii. 183 Instead of recriminating, as I might have done, before Mr. Longman, for hard Usage.

1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 32 To criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to reconciliation, in any difference amongst men.

1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. III. 158 Such are some of the personalities with which Decker recriminated.

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. xi. 262 Besides, he might come and begin a string of abuse, or complainings; I'm certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end!

1884 R. W. Church 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.

1917 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 89 p. lvi He never recriminated; he never cited mere authority nor endeavoured to falsify his opponent's statements by ‘smart’ word-play.

1953 Times 4 Dec. 8/5 It was not the intention to recriminate about the past.

1980 Times 9 June 17/5 Instead of recriminating on these affairs we should try to develop a concerted approach between the oil producing countries.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 2 Nov. 185/1 Hunkering down in a small, cluttered kitchen to dish and recriminate in Boston dialects as thick as chowdah.

1688 Bp. G. Burnet Refl. Eng. Reformation iii. 24 And as for the Frauds and Violences that were put in practice to carry Matters in those Synods, it is very like the Arrians both denied them, and were not wanting to recriminate on the Orthodox.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. xxxviii. 129 (heading) From a Jew to a Christian, recriminating upon him. 'Twas directed to Mr. Farby, Tobacconist in Broad-street, London.

1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 21 How shall such Hypocrites Reform the State, On whom the Brothels can Recriminate?

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xviii. 80 I will not recriminate upon thee, Belford, as I might.

1755 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 20 Oct. (1967) III. 93 I never recrimminate on the Lives of their Popes and Cardinals when they urge the Character of Henry the 8th.

1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis II. 72 This circumstance inspired me..to re-criminate on my base accuser.

1806 ‘C. Dacre’ Zofloya III. xxvi. 11 She reined in the tumult of her passion, and forebore to recriminate upon Henriquez.

1864 tr. Plutarch Lives xlix The Athenians, who filled the place with noise and tumult, accusing and recriminating on one another.

1881 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 3 June The Belton Courier recriminates on those who have censured Senator Maxey on account of the Star Route business.

1913 Mod. Lang. Rev. 8 108 As long as we are at variance on first principles it can be of no use to recriminate on one another in reference to minor matters of divergence, however important.

1965 W. Y. Sellar Rom. Poets of Republic vii. 211 He recriminates on his adversary as one who, by his literal adherence to his original, had turned good Greek plays into bad Latin ones.

1744 Opposition Rescued from Faction Detected 36 To recriminate against the Faction, as they call it..is no Proof of their own Innocence.

1755 S. Pike & S. Hayward Some Important Cases Conscience Answered I. xi. 162 We may often find a Propensity to that, which Prudence and Conscience, if consulted, would recriminate against.

1848 E. S. Appleyard Claims Church Rome iii. 74 When Pope Julius did seem to cross a rule of the Church..the Fathers of Antioch did smartly recriminate against him.

1920 Manitoba Free Press 6 Sept. 12/1 The man who works with his hands is not justified to recriminate against the brain worker.

1957 M. Swan Brit. Guiana i. viii. 139 After the crisis both sides recriminated against each other.

2005 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 9 Nov. 9 Baku was teeming with garrulous demagogues angrily recriminating against each other for the war that was going badly in Nagorno-Karabagh.