单词 | accusatory |
释义 | accusatoryadj. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by accusation; of the nature of or containing an accusation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] wrayful?c1225 accusatorya1400 accusative?a1475 informablec1475 querelatory1553 condemnatory1570 accusatorial1788 accusive1861 a1400 Clensyng Mannes Sowle in Eng. Misc. presented to Dr. Furnivall (1901) 271 Confessioun most also be accusatorie, þat is to sey, a man schal accuse him self in confessioun. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. sig. Bivv An epistle hortatorie, Accusatorie,..Mandatorie. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xxx. 171 Æschines..at Rhodes rehearsed that accusatorie oration which hee had made against Demosthenes. 1676 M. Nedham Pacquet Advices (new ed.) 49 Will he not be tempted, through fear of that Accusatory Faction, to serve the Regal Interest but by halves? 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 50 In a charge of adultery, the accuser ought to set forth in the accusatory libel..some certain and definite time. 1782 Morning Chron. 7 May Such accusatory charges as were to be found on the face of the Reports of the Committee. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxii. 37 He represented the demagogic and accusatory eloquence of the democracy. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iii. 32 [He] moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, ‘I couldn't help it, Sir!’ 1904 M. Maartens My Poor Relations II. 278 The minister unlocked the text-box. There were two papers in it with the accusatory words. 1981 R. M. Bramson Coping with Difficult People 45 Skilled Complainers have the accusatory style down so well that they can easily turn the tables on their bosses, putting them immediately on the defensive. 2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 20/1 Pointing was traditionally seen as bad manners because for centuries, indeed millennia, it was mainly an accusatory gesture. 2. Law. = accusatorial adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [adjective] > methods of proceeding summar1555 plenary1726 summary jurisdictiona1754 accusatory1770 adversary1785 accusatorial1823 inquisitorial1823 ore tenus1831 adversarial1914 1770 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition I. xxiii. 188 Criminal jurisprudence furnishes the necessary rules and institutions relative to the following subjects... The accusatory process... The inquisitory process. 1806 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 1053 In his opinion, the accusatory process alone is consistent with justice, on the notion, that no one can be judge in his own cause. 1894 M. A. Lesser Hist. Devel. Jury Syst. x. 134 The earliest record of an accusatory tribunal in England exists in a law of the Saxon King Ethelred III. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 4 562 Competing principles of accusatory and inquisitorial procedure. 2004 B. C. Hett Death in Tiergarten i. 23 The Imperial German system was, in the view of its legal scholars, a hybrid of an ‘accusatory’ (essentially what we mean by ‘adversarial’) and an ‘inquisitorial’ system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1400 |
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