单词 | accusive |
释义 | accusiveadj. rare after early 20th cent. Accusatory. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] wrayful?c1225 accusatorya1400 accusative?a1475 informablec1475 querelatory1553 condemnatory1570 accusatorial1788 accusive1861 1861 Friends' Intelligencer 18 May 156/1 Believe not each accusive tongue, As some weak people do, But ever hope that story wrong Which ought not to be true. 1881 E. C. Agnew Lights & Shadows of Home Affections xxiii. 237 You wicked, mistaking, accusive policeman! 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings i. 12 The comandante..wrote in his secret memorandum book the accusive fact that Señor Goodwin had on that momentous date received a telegram. 2007 USA Today (Electronic ed.) 13 Sept. d4 My mother used to say, ‘What on earth have you done?’ It's an accusation said that way. This way, what have I done, it's inclusive rather than ‘accusive’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1861 |
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